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portend
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    Yet another truth portending the inevitable.  (source)
    portending = indicate by signs that something is going to happen
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    What do these sounds portend?†  (source)
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    My first role, however, did not exactly portend greatness on stage.†  (source)
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    The B-29, and what it portended, fed the Bird's vitriol.†  (source)
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    But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.†  (source)
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    Above them, swollen thunderheads gathered along the horizon, portending a torrential storm, and circling hawks uttered lonesome cries as they hunted their prey.†  (source)
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    What do you think it portends?†  (source)
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    On a hunch, one day, I stopped along the Scenic, just where the Zebulon River opened out into a little slough, and where, in the spring, I had seen that flock of pelicans and thought they portended something good.†  (source)
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    What does your flickering portend?†  (source)
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    There was a sultry, heavy feel to the air, portending a storm later that afternoon, and he wondered idly whether Tuck had an umbrella stashed in the house somewhere.†  (source)
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    I do not know what this portends.†  (source)
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    She could hear a humming of noise far down the street, but what it portended she did not know.†  (source)
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    She had a second's flashing knowledge of what those words might portend.†  (source)
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