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
The cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
The bust would presage the dissolution of Wings; McCartney would release a solo album, “McCartney II,” in May.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
“A presage of horror! What on earth do you mean?”
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
But he takes umbrage at the notion that 2023 presages a “new normal.”
From National Geographic ● Sep. 8, 2023
He added that “it presages a lot of aesthetics found during the 2010 indie gamer boom.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast!’”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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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
“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
Crime fiction became more realistic, an approach presaged by Dashiell Hammett and other hard-boiled American writers in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
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
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Trevor Milton, founder of the electric truck manufacturer Nikola, was convicted of misleading investors in 2022, presaging Nikola’s bankruptcy last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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
But his comments suggested the fighting had taken another ominous turn for Kyiv’s forces, potentially presaging their withdrawal from a town reduced to ruins by months of horrendous bombardment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
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
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