foreshadow

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Ross King considers what form of metropolis the Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya region might foreshadow, arguing that signs of this future city are to be sought in the collision points between the utopian dreams of imagined futures and the reality of purposely forgotten pasts.

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  1. transitive verb To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage.

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  • I'm old enough to remember the ones in 1993 and 1994, which really did foreshadow - Republicans were winning in all kinds of Democratic districts, and, obviously, they won a sweep, a landslide in 1994 in that election. —  FOXNews.com
  • Suton, though, didn't do much to foreshadow how he would play in the NCAA tournament. —  Salon
  • This seems to foreshadow his later position as Deputy Prime Minister during Putin's presidency. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Hardly did they foreshadow the "black flower of civilization" which Nathaniel Hawthorne would later bemoan. —  National Coalition for History
  • There is mounting evidence that memory lapses don't necessarily foreshadow dementia, and that doing mind aerobics can reduce the risk.
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foreshadow:   foreshadowing ·  foreshadowed
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/ˈfoʊrʃædoʊ/
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