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foreshowing

verb

present participle of foreshow

as in telling (of)

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Yet the book is also about the disappearance of time and places, with summer’s end presaging more permanent losses.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Andy Cohen was lost to the wormhole, presaging more losses to come.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 May 2026

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But the drama here feels too diagrammatic, foretelling a tragic fate from the first scene onward as everyone parties down like their lives depend on it.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
The Guardian similarly noted more than a dozen $100,000 bets on prediction markets foretelling the February air strikes on Iran, while The New York Times last month reported 150 bets of $1,000 or more predicting the start of the war.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 21 Apr. 2026

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Despite cost pressures continuing to affect match-going fans, every English top-flight club has a waiting list in operation for season tickets, indicating that demand remains high.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The police also obtained records from one of Sellars’ social media accounts indicating that, 90 minutes after the shooting, someone used the account to search for news of a fatal shooting in Stamford.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026

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