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have presaged

  • present perfect
    of presage.
    presage
    noun
    a presentiment or foreboding.

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“Not all high-profile U.S. IPOs have presaged major corrections in the S&P 500,” said John Higgins, chief economic adviser for financial markets at Capital Economics.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

That particular outcome — a heart-tugging crowd-pleaser prevailing over a more artful, more austere movie — seems to have presaged “CODA’s” fateful showdown with “The Power of the Dog.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

By that logic, rhynchocephalians’ speedy variations should have presaged greater success.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 23, 2022

But people believed him when he said — as he did Saturday, in a line that may have presaged today’s events — “I love Twitter.”

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2021

Tello “began to govern with forbearance, although one thing that he did before reaching the city seems to have presaged the evils of the future.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson