presage
noun
a presentiment or foreboding.
presages
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present tense formof presage (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The rapidly growing rail system is a symbol of India’s modernization, and Charu’s bookish father, a workshop manager, believes in the progress it presages.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 20, 2026
Corporate earnings are growing, and profit margins are stable and often expanding—and that usually presages higher stock prices.
From Barron's β Feb. 4, 2026
But he takes umbrage at the notion that 2023 presages a “new normal.”
From National Geographic β Sep. 8, 2023
Waxman warns against being too alarmist about whether it presages the decline of American democracy, a la Germany in the 1930s, as America still has strong democratic institutions.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 21, 2022
As I passed down an obscure street, I felt spread through all my palms that tingling of the nerves that presages a great leap.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
