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portent

[pawr-tent, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tɛnt, ˈpoʊr- /




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A key issue is whether Medallia troubles portent greater problems in software lending.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Disney’s chairman recently revealed that D’Amaro was involved with December’s controversial OpenAI character-licensing deal, a grim portent for his future as entertainment boss.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

It proved a portent of what was to come.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Ged doled their food out sparingly, and the portent of this was plain, but both of them chewed their bit of salt fish and wheaten cake, and neither said anything.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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