foreshadow
verb (used with object)
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.
have been foreshadowing
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present perfect progressiveof foreshadow.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The primary turnout numbers merely confirm what data have been foreshadowing for years.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
A singer who dies young seems in retrospect to have been foreshadowing in every lyric.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2013
Power might have been foreshadowing herself when she wrote in a 2005 New Yorker commentary about President George W. Bush’s U.N. nominee John Bolton, an advocate of decidedly different politics.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2013
Now, in all this, I have been foreshadowing no scheme of wild, vague, far-distant reform.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
