foretokened

verb

past tense of foretoken
as in cautioned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretokened
  1. cautioned
  2. alerted
  3. foreshadowed
  4. visualized
  5. envisioned
  6. forewarned
  7. envisaged
  8. predicted
Verb
  • Human rights advocates have also welcomed Jin’s release but cautioned that many members of Zion Church still remain behind bars.
    — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Slightly before halftime though, Bilal El Khannouss was cautioned, becoming the fourth Moroccan player – and sixth overall in the match – to be shown a yellow in the first half.
    — Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Definition of cautioned
Verb
  • Without hesitation, Patrick, 7, pulled his younger brother from the water, alerted their mom to the emergency and ran to a neighbor's house to get extra help, deputies said.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • But the video assistant referee alerted head ref Raphael Claus to review the incident for a possible red card.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 3 July 2026
Definition of alerted
Verb
  • Roberts’s quip foreshadowed his opinion on behalf of the Court holding that near-universal birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the text of the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause.
    — Amanda Frost, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • As Sam Khan wrote yesterday, the SWC also foreshadowed the future of college football.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of foreshadowed
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  • Researchers recently visualized a set of images across a spectrum of red, white, and blue hues compiled by the Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • This can be visualized as a kind of barcode, with some narrow stripes and some thicker continuous stripes following one another.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
Definition of visualized
Verb
  • The NBCUniversal spin-off is envisioned as a tax-free transaction for shareholders, providing a short-term buffer from deal-making to preserve that structure.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • This unique telescope is using the world’s largest digital camera to scan the entire southern sky every few nights, assembling what will become the most lavishly detailed time-lapse of the cosmos humanity has ever envisioned.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Definition of envisioned
Verb
  • Bloomberg's Mark Gurman forewarned these price increases were coming.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The former star of The White Lotus explained that she'd been forewarned the scenes were cut from creator and showrunner Sam Levinson.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
Definition of forewarned
Verb
  • Her exhibit design vision, envisaged in partnership with partner Paul Cournet and his studio Cloud, incorporated luminescence and hues that radiated from the gems, dictating the color palette of purple, green, yellow and pink.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 25 June 2026
  • Global is confident that the show has already been renewed for a second season and Abrams said it was envisaged to return multiple times.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 June 2026
Definition of envisaged
Verb
  • And with one of the worst tick seasons ever predicted happening now, this treatment is more important than ever.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Gartner predicted 20% of organizations would flatten by 2026, eliminating over half of middle management roles.
    — Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of predicted
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