foreshadow
[fawr-shad-oh, fohr-]
- to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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Origin of foreshadow
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Contemporary Examples
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
Weirdly, he mostly avoided Cubism, even though he got wild Cezannes that foreshadow that movement.
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May 18, 2012
The harshest hit in what's available publicly is saved for the Obamas and could foreshadow a talking point if she runs in 2012.
Historical Examples
Their great compeers, the giants of thought, foreshadow what it will be.
There was not a thing to foreshadow that either of us was to be jerked from his profession.
The Blind SpotAustin Hall
Now let us examine this hypothesis, and see if it does not foreshadow and sustain our own.
The Spirit of God As FireD. Mortimore
These rose-tinted dawns too often foreshadow the storm-cloud.
Ruth HallFanny Fern
He implored him for strength to avert the disasters which this night seemed to foreshadow.
Christ LegendsSelma Lagerlf
foreshadow
- (tr) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage
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