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presignified

verb

past tense of presignify

as in harbingered

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When a doddering Joe Biden threatened the party’s hold on the White House and foreshadowed a 2024 congressional wipeout, Pelosi used her considerable influence to not so gently ease the president aside as Democrats’ nominee for the White House.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
But a narrow overtime loss to the Detroit Lions in the season opener foreshadowed the difficult road ahead.

— Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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In a first round that portended a lengthy and bloody fight, the Dodgers clutched to a 1-0 lead after three innings with ace Tarik Skubal on the mound and Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski headed for the showers.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
At this point, things take a supernatural leap that has already been portended by various visions and nightmares.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026

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Traditional systems can branch, but only along routes someone anticipated and coded beforehand.

— Maria Scott, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The architects of the Constitution anticipated that officials in different branches would compete to preserve their authority.

— Stephanie A, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

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Other Black families tried to hold on under the new regime but ultimately found Wilmington untenable and moved north, joining a local exodus that prefigured the Great Migration.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
In July 1962, Froio prefigured her lifelong involvement with the Hamptons by writing a piece for WWD about what was selling at the boutiques in West Hampton, commenting on the merchandise at stores called Le Sorelle (The Sisters) and Treasure Trove.

— Lorna Koski, Footwear News, 11 June 2026

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In its public financial documents, SpaceX has indicated that the bulk of its future revenues are likely to come from orbital data centers that will provide the backbone of computing for artificial intelligence on Earth.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
Dispatch audio indicated about 15 shell casings at the scene.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

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As Ebola spreads across Africa, Kaseya warned against closing borders to contain it.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
In a June 2026 paper titled When AI Builds Itself, Anthropic warned that the recursive loop has moved from science fiction to operational reality faster than the company itself expected.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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