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Service companies reduced employment for the fifth time in the past six months, perhaps portending a weak August employment report on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Amid fading light, the delicate fledglings fluttered in a wind portending a storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

Before they knew it, the sky turned dark, portending a storm.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Wholesale food inflation has started to decline, portending possible relief for consumers in coming months.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023

The purr of streams over rocky bed was whispering, the queer quaking echoes of falling rocks were giants at war, and the mists rising from swaying waterfalls, spirit-forms portending death.

From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut




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