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And the punk rock that Iggy and the Stooges had presaged nearly a decade earlier was taking hold in the United States.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020

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 • 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 • 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 • Aug. 21, 2014

The encounter had presaged a further attempt upon the slipper!

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax