presage
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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
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
Their book is the first such comprehensive study of HTS and is likely to presage much further research and examination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Ah, not if you were like me—if sleep was to you a presage of horror!”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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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
Waxman warns against being too alarmist about whether it presages the decline of American democracy, a la Germany in the 1930s, as America still has strong democratic institutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
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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But the aborted diplomatic launch capped an already tumultuous two days that presaged the meeting’s collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Not all high-profile U.S. IPOs have presaged major corrections in the S&P 500,” said John Higgins, chief economic adviser for financial markets at Capital Economics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
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
He didn’t stay, but his arrival presaged their comeback, with 50 to 75 roaming the state today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
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
As a result, the tins have become iconic for presaging disappointment — for not containing what the packaging promises.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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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