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portend
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    When Mr. Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding.  (source)
    portend = indicate by a sign 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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    What does your flickering portend?†  (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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    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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    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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