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foreshowing

verb

present participle of foreshow

as in telling (of)

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Yet the book is also about the disappearance of time and places, with summer’s end presaging more permanent losses.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Andy Cohen was lost to the wormhole, presaging more losses to come.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 May 2026

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But the drama here feels too diagrammatic, foretelling a tragic fate from the first scene onward as everyone parties down like their lives depend on it.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
The Guardian similarly noted more than a dozen $100,000 bets on prediction markets foretelling the February air strikes on Iran, while The New York Times last month reported 150 bets of $1,000 or more predicting the start of the war.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 21 Apr. 2026

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In the region that includes Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, the proportion of flu tests that come back positive reached at least 10% last week, indicating significant levels of flu.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Polls suggest the race is essentially tied, with some indicating Jackson has a razor-thin lead.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

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