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Meanings of omen in English
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Synonyms
Examples for "forecast"
Examples for "forecast"
1
Conditions are forecast to deteriorate over coming days particularly in coastal areas.
2
However, the forecast now predicts the rain will continue past that point.
3
Did Recorded Future forecast Tunisian political violence in the summer of 2010?
4
Cost inflation this year is in line with managers' forecast, said Premier.
5
However, the forecast was clouded by higher production costs and investment expenditure.
1
Each year, points vary and it's difficult to predict changes in advance.
2
However, there is currently no clear strategy to reliably predict HDACi sensitivity.
3
And right now, there's no way to predict which cases will progress.
4
Analysts now predict weeks of political horse-trading to form a new cabinet.
5
However, analysts predict that the markets will quickly discount the election results.
1
His nomadic past doesn't exactly bode too well for South Africa's future.
2
Williamson said the data did not bode well for the coming months.
3
Analysts say a Democratic sweep could also bode well for emerging markets.
4
Analysts said the ruling could bode well for ExxonMobil's case at ICSID.
5
What people say does not bode well for the future of humanity.
1
S&Ps changes may even foretell a coming upturn for banks, he said.
2
Could push-ups foretell the future and the state of a person's heart?
3
I expect the king can foretell he will have a great future.
4
No one at present can foretell the outcome of the European War.
5
But you can't foretell the future and you're not a mind reader.
1
The following are a few of the accidental omens that portend ill:
2
None of these qualities would seem to portend the frenzy to come.
3
Take it, then, and perform what thy birds portend can be done.
4
All this made him uncomfortable, and seemed to portend a possible discord.
5
Atlee watched her, by no means certain what her gesture might portend.
1
Is the word of the augur at Brundisium beginning to be fulfilled?
2
How distinctly he remembered the age of the oracle and the augur!
3
All of this does not augur well for the future of the Group.
4
Bore a few augur holes in the sides of either box.
5
But this conscientious augur acts in reference to the auspices without his colleagues.
1
Aloes, without a flower, betoken long life: in flower, betoken a legacy.
2
His countenance expresses courage, and his well-set jaws betoken firmness and resolution.
3
And the simultaneous disappearance of Quast and the cats-whatdid that betoken?
4
This plea for wings does not necessarily betoken 'a desire to depart.'
5
They betoken a new humility in Western Christianity born of experience.
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Some observers believe there are danger signs that may foreshadow a melt-down.
2
Don't necessarily expect the outcome here to foreshadow the big one, however.
3
These papers often foreshadow where the rest of the world is going.
4
It seemed to foreshadow the relentless, inevitable approach of an endless night.
5
This could foreshadow a wider rebound in A-shares in the coming months.
1
By the same art he would prognosticate a principality to a scoundrel.
2
Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy.
3
When I heard these words I did prognosticate my miserie to come.
4
These criteria can be used to prognosticate and guide clinical decisions after recurrence.
5
Of the mineral wealth, it seems as yet dangerous to prognosticate.
1
The latest newspapers Redwood had did but vaguely prefigure these imminent things.
2
All three prefigure Kill Bill's central theme of wronged women seeking revenge.
3
Christ's millennial reign may prefigure the fulfillment of God's promises about Jerusalem's future.
4
And now that she could begin to sit up it did prefigure recovery.
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Does it not prefigure the wayward and fantastic progress of a storm-tossed life?
1
Would to God I could auspicate good influences!
2
There is one thing I would mention which seems to auspicate the speedy development of the valley of the North Red River.
3
Never, surely, was a political career more impressively auspicated.
A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
Usage of omen in English
1
I decided to take that as a good omen and kept walking.
2
Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the omen.
3
It is a bad omen to wet the foot in these springs.
4
This is a good omen for the release of her next project.
5
The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
6
It seems a good omen for what Whitley is trying to do.
7
A good omen; as a Master-Card, meaning a Gift to the Querist.
8
Siddhartha thought, What a fine omen marks my arrival in this city!
9
Everyone screamed and yammered and said it was an omen of defeat.
10
She must be stressed out, or perhaps it was just another omen.
11
You say nothing of yours; but your industry is a good omen.
12
The very name of the hill was hailed as a promising omen.
13
They got on famously, which I took to be a good omen.
14
When the fairies saw the clothes, they thought it a good omen.
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His two first-period goals proved to be a positive omen for Florida.
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But as he rode on, reflecting, he read more in the omen.
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