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What does foreshadow mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]
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As asset prices fall, people spend less and investors foreshadow lower profits and higher defaults by running from corporate bonds and shares.
Thus did the poem even foreshadow the advent of e-mail, which, after the bombing, became the means by which the poem traveled.
What then is the picture of the world in the mind of this child, and how does it foreshadow the future events of the story?
I'm all for further densification, but plans like this foreshadow a future that really needs to be thought about.
The lighting and staging of the work foreshadow the tragedy effectively, juxtaposing dark, foreboding scenes with light, flirtatious ones.
The events taking place at that time will foreshadow the scapegoat ritual of the Day of Atonement in Israel's sanctuary service.

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