Example Sentences
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But no one foretold that the star to whom the Dodgers agreed last winter to pay an average of $60 million each year would be, well, average.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Some claim that the stock market’s full-year direction is foretold by its performance on the first trading day of January; others focus on the first two days, and still others on the first week.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
As the journalist Robert Bryce foretold years ago: “Electric vehicles are the Next Big Thing, and they always will be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
His three under par on the front nine of the second day at the North was noteworthy, but hardly foretold a round that would go into lore.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
The day had turned sunny, just as he’d foretold.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
