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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

The Protestant in me knows what the Gospel owes to those prophets who, beginning eight centuries before Jesus Christ, have presaged the universalism which the religion of Christ would later proclaim throughout the world.

From The Grey Book by Snoek, Johan Martinus