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While the $6 million in damages is small potatoes for two of the world’s largest corporations, the March verdict could presage much costlier lawsuits.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

After hearing these songs, the happier ones at the beginning of the album reveal bits of shadow that Rodrigo has built into them to presage what’s to come — to presage what always comes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Conversely, a lagging transportation average might presage a decline in the overall market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

If Rosenberg is right and “odds of some policy action or communication to stabilize the yen are rising,” then this could presage a major trading reversal.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

She did not answer, but as he looked at her it seemed to him that something in her softened, as though a bitter frost were yielding at the first faint presage of Spring.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The top honor at the newly rebranded Actor Awards recognizes the ensemble cast of a film -- a decision that sometimes, but not always, presages Oscars best picture glory.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

The rapidly growing rail system is a symbol of India’s modernization, and Charu’s bookish father, a workshop manager, believes in the progress it presages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

But he takes umbrage at the notion that 2023 presages a “new normal.”

From National Geographic ● Sep. 8, 2023

The book presages much of what Cronenberg has done in the movies; it’s clearly as much of an influence on him as it has been for such directors as Nicolas Roeg or Ridley Scott.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Orgoreyn and the Archipelago has been increasing during the last ten or twenty millennia, and presages the end of the Ice, or at least a recession of it and an interglacial period.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

It also accurately presaged a big post-IPO runup in shares of Cerebras once they finally went public in the U.S, according to Coltman.

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026

And again, EPS beats heralded outperformance of 3% in the first year of a new activist-led CEO regime, while EPS misses presaged a lag of 10%.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

The 2000s brought opportunity to expand that vision, as declining production presaged a natural end to oil field operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

The announcement was presaged by recent headlines that Andrew wasn’t invited to join the royal family’s Christmas celebrations at their Sandringham estate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

Each visit was presaged by trips to the seamstress to fit a new dress or disguise an old one, and each time they returned there was fresh news about the royal court.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

Often, a low put-call ratio is a sign that investors are overly ebullient and can thus be seen as a contrarian indicator, presaging a market retreat.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

It was an early example of Americans’ resentment of English tyranny, presaging the anger that would erupt into the Revolutionary War in the next century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

The apocalyptic imagination, he argued, imposes on history “neat, naïve patterns” presaging a turning point in the grand scheme of humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Scores were exposed to the virus, presaging potential catastrophe in Africa’s most populous nation.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025

She told Inspector Thomas Mathew how in the last few weeks she had noticed some presaging signs, some insolence, some rudeness.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy