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Meanings of portent in English
A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
Synonyms
Examples for "prognostic"
Examples for "prognostic"
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Background: Left ventricular mass offers prognostic information for assessing cardiovascular disease risk.
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Conclusion: In this study a previously developed prognostic risk model was validated.
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In particular, the Immunoscore® has been shown to hold strong prognostic value.
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Conclusion: BCLC staging system provided the best prognostic stratification for HCC patients.
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A few patients in favourable prognostic categories survive longer than 5 years.
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I decided to take that as a good omen and kept walking.
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Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the omen.
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It is a bad omen to wet the foot in these springs.
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This is a good omen for the release of her next project.
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The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
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You forget, Taurus, I trained for a long time with her prodigy.
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Michael is a 16 year old classical prodigy whose… Read more Audio
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What about that shortcut that may allow your progeny to be prodigy?
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Jenny Lind is a wonder, and a prodigy in song-andno mistake.
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He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy.
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Its clean air, water, and energy standards invariably presage similar efforts nationwide.
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Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest.
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But the softness in the Christmas air did not presage a thaw.
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The decrease in expensive markets could presage broader weakness rent prices nationally.
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The character and standing of the candidates seemed a presage of victory.
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That prognostication has unfortunately become a reality following a scan on Monday.
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New and effective strategies for diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment are urgently needed.
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The comparator arm in all studies was usual care without protocolized prognostication.
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Nay, it humiliated her personally, and the baronet's shrewd prognostication humiliated her.
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The Master said, 'This arises simply from not attending to the prognostication.'
Usage of portent in English
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The Irish Times saw the event as a portent of better times:
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Neither brother had expected a moment so fraught, so heady with portent.
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The sun-star exhibited a golden halo of ice crystals, portent of change.
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It was nothing less than a portent of what was to come.
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On the other hand, to Thyrsis he was a portent of terror.
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A second difference of even greater portent was the motif of gathering.
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All his inner being trembled at the portent of his next query.
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Almo's austere celibacy is a portent in our world and altogether marvellous.
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John looked puzzled, not quite understanding the portent of this cryptic saying.
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Or she'll grow into a portent and a peril and a pest.
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It was her Majesty's remedy for that new portent, the revolting daughter.
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The Black Coach had been a death portent, warning of impending doom.
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There was portent in it; things seemed to be closing in.
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The stillness grew in portent; the forest creatures moved more furtively.
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Everyone believed in astrology; the comet of 1680 was regarded as a portent.
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The portent is fulfilled; the Heir of Cerdic is no more.
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