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Synonyms for portent
Synonyms
augury, auspice, boding, foreboding, foreshadowing, omen, prefiguring, presage
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Locked inside a crate at Kenya’s main international airport is a portent of what might happen if the ngadji were returned without the highest level of governmental coordination. — Max Bearak, Washington Post, "Kenya’s Pokomo people ask the British to return what was stolen: Their source of power," 9 Aug. 2019 Despite all that, the delegates who met in Iceland recently for the annual gathering of the European Humanist Federation saw troubling portents on the horizon. — Erasmus, The Economist, "Europe’s secularists worry about the rise of Christian-nativist populism," 11 June 2019 Amanda Zieve’s lighting also adds to the sense of portent. — (jim Carmody), San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Horror-flick chills hint at larger ills in La Jolla Playhouse’s ambitious and mysterious ‘Put Your House in Order’," 9 June 2019 Even so, the fulfillment of the nightmare has me in the grip of its portent. — Lisa Wells, Harper's magazine, "Nightmares at 20,000 Feet," 10 Apr. 2019 But the ensuing gang-beating offered a portent of what Amazon was walking into. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Amazon Escapes From New York," 14 Feb. 2019 But the eggs being served at Frenchette, Flora Bar, and other portents of the Age of Egg are pastured eggs: eggs from chickens that still forage and peck and lay less frequently. — Tamar Adler, Vogue, "Why Pastured Eggs Are the Perfect Food," 13 Sep. 2018 Ominous portents because Boston went on to lose both those series. — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, "Marcus Smart Continues to Give the Celtics Exactly What They Need," 14 May 2018 Perhaps the troubling signs Roiphe detects are portents of a dark future. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, "Katie Roiphe Is Right About Twitter Feminism and Wrong About #MeToo," 16 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'portent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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