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portend

[ UK /pɔːtˈɛnd/ ]
[ US /pɔɹˈtɛnd/ ]
VERB
  1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen
    These signs bode bad news

How To Use portend In A Sentence

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  • Although HUD will not release conclusive results from the recent Counts until this summer, we are already seeing plenty of antidotal information and partial numbers portending bad news. Census Time: Who is Homeless?
  • The devaluation was recognized as more than a technical adjustment: it was a clear sign of French disengagement, portending withdrawal a year later.
  • Fame portends trouble for men just as fattening does for pigs.
  • Decaying cities often portend the failure of a state.
  • The election results thus portend a new period of social convulsions.
  • What they portend is that—just as Wells had written at the start of "War of the Worlds"—an old, arid world with its dried-up canals is now intent on conquest. Why Steampunk's Time Has Come
  • Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
  • To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass - produced boys.
  • We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe.
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