presage
noun
a presentiment or foreboding.
had presaged
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past perfectof presage.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In fact, one of Mr. Trump’s top advisers, Chris LaCivita, had presaged it less than an hour before Mr. Cameron spoke.
From New York Times β May 16, 2023
The US president had presaged the news of Baghdadi’s death in characteristic style, inviting speculation by tweeting at 9.23pm on Saturday evening in Washington: “Something very big has just happened!”
From The Guardian β Oct. 27, 2019
But it was not until his second spell in office, in 2010, that Orbán managed to initiate the total transformation he had presaged more than two decades earlier.
From The Guardian β Jan. 6, 2016
His lawyers had presaged the drama by promising, for instance, that the former governor would read a September 2011 email to his wife in which he begged her to save the marriage.
From New York Times β Aug. 21, 2014
Of a sudden, he slammed the big book shut, that he was studying, and rose to his feet with a hard laugh—the laugh that had presaged more than one calamity to mankind.
From The Air Trust by George Allan England
