presage
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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
Worn for a couple of weeks, the Zio monitor looks for irregular heart rhythms, such as atrial fibrillation—a racing heartbeat that can presage a stroke or heart attack.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
But some familiar with the company think the headquarters relocation announcement could presage a larger presence in Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a “brool” over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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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
Corporate earnings are growing, and profit margins are stable and often expanding—and that usually presages higher stock prices.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
It is intense, precise and gorgeously written, and I hope it presages another volume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
But he takes umbrage at the notion that 2023 presages a “new normal.”
From National Geographic ● Sep. 8, 2023
As I passed down an obscure street, I felt spread through all my palms that tingling of the nerves that presages a great leap.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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In the past, long weekly winning streaks have typically presaged more gains for the index, following some near-term weakness.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 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 rise and collapse of the eruption column presaged a series of pyroclastic surges, the fourth of which killed everyone in its path in Pompeii.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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
Shreve cried, though Quentin had not spoken: it had been merely some quality, some gathering of Quentin’s still laxed and hunched figure which presaged speech, because Shreve said Wait.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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Some worry that suggests crypto’s slump could be presaging a broader market decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
This paean to the bottle service era sees Usher delivering silky R&B seduction over synth-driven production and 808 drums, presaging his later forays into electronic dance music.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Now the precise outlines of her skull show through the skin of her face, presaging death.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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