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foreshadowing
adjective as in augural
adjective as in mantic
adjective as in prophetic
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adjective as in sibylline
adjective as in vatic
adjective as in vatical
adjective as in vaticinal
noun as in foreboding
noun as in forewarning
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noun as in portent
noun as in revelation
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noun as in sign
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noun as in signification
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- assurance
- augury
- auspice
- badge
- beacon
- bell
- caution
- clue
- divination
- evidence
- flag
- flash
- foreboding
- foreknowledge
- foretoken
- forewarning
- gesture
- giveaway
- harbinger
- herald
- hint
- index
- indication
- indicator
- light
- manifestation
- mark
- nod
- note
- omen
- portent
- precursor
- prediction
- premonition
- presage
- presentiment
- prognostic
- proof
- signal
- stamp
- suggestion
- symbol
- symptom
- token
- trace
- vestige
- warning
- wave
- whistle
- wink
- witness
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noun as in sign of things to come
noun as in threat
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Example Sentences
A planned beach getaway by Lili and Esti implodes when a hotel clerk refuses to honor their reservation, a foreshadowing of far worse indignities to come.
The widely televised hearings have given Democrats a chance to sharply question his nominees, foreshadowing a combative four years.
We know his dad trained him to hunt and forage, but that hard-earned instruction never factors into the film — not even a close-up of poisonous mushrooms that reeks of foreshadowing.
The play, like our lives, is circular, the beginning foreshadowing the inevitable end.
President-elect Donald Trump has blown past an Oct 1 deadline to submit a mandatory ethics pledge, potentially foreshadowing a chaotic handoff between the Biden administration and the second Trump term's team.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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