foreshadow
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
Origin of foreshadow
1Other words from foreshadow
- fore·shad·ow·er, noun
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How to use foreshadow in a sentence
Neatly, it also serves as foreshadowing for Paris’s romance with Asher Fleming, also introduced in this episode.
The huge buildup in delinquencies foreshadows the flood to come.
Housing flips the recession script: Prices will keep rising for up to a year, but here’s how the party will end | Shawn Tully | October 4, 2020 | FortuneHis attorney will likely claim self-defense, as foreshadowed by the president.
So while modest, Neuralink’s research already foreshadows how this technology could one day change life as we know it.
Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain | Rebecca Heilweil | August 28, 2020 | VoxAnd, a few researchers suspect, it may even foreshadow a new perspective on reality.
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View | Charlie Wood | August 20, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
But the cold hard numbers that Korb advances foreshadow a day of reckoning, just not yet.
That would only foreshadow the “fractured antislavery world” to come, as Kantrowitz calls it, which emerged after the Civil War.
Did the Civil War Achieve Equality? Stephen Kantrowitz’s ‘More Than Freedom’ | Eric Herschthal | August 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWeirdly, he mostly avoided Cubism, even though he got wild Cezannes that foreshadow that movement.
Philadelphia’s Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light | Blake Gopnik | May 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe harshest hit in what's available publicly is saved for the Obamas and could foreshadow a talking point if she runs in 2012.
Those allusions to former times foreshadow an evil intent on their part.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueThese events were supposed to foreshadow the speedy demise of the Peel administration.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanIt is impossible to predict or in any way to foreshadow any fusion of these hostile elements.
Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value | Arthur Glyn LeonardTheir flight was considered to foreshadow evil to the royal family, and their reappearance was regarded as a happy omen.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantJust as death seemed a protracted sleep, so did the dream come to foreshadow the life after death.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
British Dictionary definitions for foreshadow
/ (fɔːˈʃædəʊ) /
(tr) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage
Derived forms of foreshadow
- foreshadower, noun
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