portend in English

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1. What do these strange events portend?

2. What does all this portend?

3. Swallows flying low portend rain.

4. A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.

5. What may they portend for the future?

6. What is the greatest danger that this may portend?

7. What universal debauchery this might portend for our nation!

8. Rising infection rates portend a health-care disaster.

9. These clouds are ominous. They portend a severe storm.

10. It might portend something more: the beginning of an ideological countertrend.

11. The change did not portend a basic improvement in social conditions.

12. They may or may not portend a collapse of civilization.

13. Not, perhaps, a great portend for a new generation of robots.

14. To be an omen of; to portend: The future Bodes well for you

15. For the cellular industry, this may portend a daunting new world.

16. What does the rise of libertarianism portend for the future of the US?

17. 23 synonyms for Adumbrate: augur, bode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, portend

18. Less emphasis on mortgage payments portend higher delinquency rates and perhaps even more foreclosures.

19. Overcast skies portend a rough day for boats on Iceland's Lake Myvatn.

20. It was a deeply superstitious country, where earthquakes were commonly believed to portend the end of dynasties.

21. To be an omen of; to portend: The future Bodes well for you

22. More troubling, she said, is what Google's flub may portend for the future.

23. I commissioned him to read the questionnaire results and comment on what they portend.

24. Bode definition, to be an omen of; portend: The news Bodes evil days for him

25. Bode definition, to be an omen of; portend: The news Bodes evil days for him

26. For thousands of years, this strange sight has frightened millions, and has been thought to portend evil or calamitous events.

27. Why is Babylon termed “the wilderness of the sea,” and what does that title portend regarding her future?

28. Slowing commercial construction, flat housing markets and lackluster remodeling activity portend tougher business for moulding and millwork manufacturers.

29. 1200 as "to augur, presage, portend," also "be or give evidence of." Related: Betokened; Betokening.

30. Obama Bushwacks Egypt’s El-Sisi, Aligns America With Jihadists! What Does This Portend? The Geo-Political Blow Back…Commentary By Adina Kutnicki

31. She sees a shooting star and is heartened by whatever hope it might portend, but before long she is crying again.

32. To be or give a token or sign of; portend: a thunderclap that Betokens foul weather; an angry word that Betokens hostility

33. They hoped that the arrival of Trump’s justices would portend a wholesale reconsideration of the Supreme Court’s misguided adventure into the world of unwritten, Atextual, judicially created

34. Mucinous Adenocarcinomas of the lung account for approximately 10–15% of lung Adenocarcinomas and have been reported to portend a poorer prognosis than non-mucinous adenocarcinoma (Cai et al

35. As verbs the difference between bode and Bided is that bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow or bode can be (bide) while Bided is (bide)

36. Bode (third-person singular simple present Bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle Boded) ( transitive , intransitive ) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell .

37. Bode - indicate by signs; "These signs Bode bad news" augur , auspicate , omen , portend , foreshadow , presage , prognosticate , predict , prefigure , betoken , forecast , foretell threaten - to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"

38. The spellings augur (a verb meaning ‘portend a good or bad outcome’, as in this Augurs well) and auger (a type of tool used for boring) are sometimes confused, but the two words are quite different in both their present meaning and their origins

39. Bespeak: 1 v be a signal for or a symptom of Synonyms: betoken , indicate , point , signal Types: show 9 types hide 9 types augur , auspicate , betoken , bode , forecast , foreshadow , foretell , omen , portend , predict , prefigure , presage , prognosticate indicate by signs mark designate as if by a mark threaten to be a menacing

40. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century

41. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century

42. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century

43. Les changements effectués par Juncker pourraient en revanche Augurer de véritables avancées sur ce front, ainsi qu'en direction d'une union monétaire et énergétique.: Juncker's changes, however, may portend genuine progress on this front, as well as toward monetary and energy union.: Il s'agit là d'un signe positif qui pourrait Augurer le retour des investisseurs en Afghanistan.