portent
Example Sentences
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A key issue is whether Medallia troubles portent greater problems in software lending.
From Barron's
If films about catastrophe often take a schematic, meet-the-victims approach to their opening scenes, Ms. Littman renders hers with persuasive vibrancy, too full of life to have room for heavy-handed portent.
But portents of doom have followed Rachel from the start.
Maybe they had portents that it could be like this.
From BBC
That usually unremarkable occurrence proved to be a portent for the exhibition.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.