foreshadow
verb (used with object)
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.
foreshadowed
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past participleof foreshadow.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof foreshadow.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
foreshadowverb (used with object)to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.
Example Sentences
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Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
His comments upon exiting might have foreshadowed the current difficulties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Andreessen’s prescient call foreshadowed 15 years of transformation and arguably trillions in value creation.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
In a move that foreshadowed Parton’s future as a feminist firebrand of her time, she contracted a lawyer and found a room for her daughters and herself in the Marlboro Hotel in Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
As previously discussed in chapter 2, Britain’s colonization of Indigenous lands in North America was foreshadowed by its colonization of the province of Ulster in northern Ireland.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
