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Definition

serve as a sign of something about to happen — typically something bad

Does the warm summer presage a climate change catastrophe?

presage = serve as a sign of coming

We see none of the pessimism that typically presages a recession.

presages = serves as a sign of coming

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

presage = are a sign of

Now, it must be admitted that there is no symptom or presage of the approach of such a revolution.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
The air was cold and still, presaging a storm.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
Garrett knew the dark, heavy clouds on the horizon presaged a coming storm.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
You know that I held Epicurus strong, And his opinion: now I change my mind, And partly credit things that do presage.
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
She told Inspector Thomas Mathew how in the last few weeks she had noticed some presaging signs, some insolence, some rudeness.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
It signified a crisis nearer than even her fears had presaged, and infinitely worse.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Her nerves presaged strain.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
The women of the oasis met them with gloomy faces presaging bad news, and they were reluctant to tell it.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
Laws that Presage Tyranny
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
In time I forgot the circumstance, though there was much talk of it as a presage of the Messiah.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
To the east, a faint yellow glow tinted a section of the horizon, presaging the return of the sun.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great presage of cruelty.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
He knew young vampires only too well; did this emotion presage some misstep on my part?
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
The yellow and vapoury sunset which had wrapped up Eustacia from his parting gaze had presaged change.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
The smoke in the corridor had presaged heat; the heat was here now, pressing against him like an oppressive wall.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

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