Definition of forerunnext

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Verb
  • Employment opportunities will also abound under this moon April's new moon will rise in Aries on April 17 and will herald a surge of excitement and passion.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Yeahs parlayed their New York hero status into career artists, the Mooney Suzuki, whose 1999 EP was heralded as a watershed moment for the scene, had the unfortunate fate of missing out on the boom.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • His comments upon exiting might have foreshadowed the current difficulties.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Walton’s response to being denied a chance to make money off the Hula Hoop craze in the late 1950s foreshadowed a critical part of the Walmart DNA that can be seen in 2026 with the retailer’s purchase of the television company Vizio.
    Steve Lackmeyer, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • These tools help predict how a candidate will handle challenges, collaborate, and fit into your team.
    Karla Vallecillo, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • At these critical points, theory predicts that entanglement may spike dramatically, but models often fail to describe what actually happens.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The investment bank has a buy rating on Amazon and a $280 price target on shares, implying 12% upside from Thursday's close.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The change in coma chemistry observed by the team implies that the internal chemistry of 3I/ATLAS differs from its external chemistry.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The $50-million injection from the DFC will be used only once Rainbow Rare Earths starts construction of its processing factory in Phalaborwa, anticipated in early 2027.
    Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The analyst said that the event and the meetings provided stronger-than-anticipated clarity into future demand across various growth drivers.
    TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Nothing in America’s tepid 19th-century contributions to European classical music adumbrated it; nor did the homely and sometimes hokey popular songs of Stephen Foster.
    Heather Mac Donald, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
Verb
  • That prefigured, in a much smaller and less consequential way, Iran’s own actions in blocking the Strait of Hormuz during the current crisis.
    Ioana Emy Matesan, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
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“Forerun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/forerun. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.

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