presage
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So this could presage tensions too between Polanski and the party membership, some of whom will have been inspired to join the Greens by his leadership.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
For Livia, who performs it for a university recital, it is her greatest triumph and a symbol of her hubris, because mastering it seems to presage a fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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
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
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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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
Her third novel, “A Book of Common Prayer,” published in 1977, takes place in the fictional Central American nation of Boca Grande; it presages the book-length nonfiction studies “Salvador” and “Miami.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
Hence, the passage presages the coming of the Messiah.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
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 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
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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
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
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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