fore·shad·ow

[fawr-shad-oh, fohr-]
verb (used with object)
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.

Origin:
1570–80; fore- + shadow

fore·shad·ow·er, noun
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foreshadow (fɔːˈʃædəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
(tr) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage
 
fore'shadower
 
n

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foreshadow
1570s, from fore + shadow; the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing.
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Example sentences
Therefore, they may foreshadow subsequent price changes for business and
  consumers.
For, clotted as the poem was, it seemed uncannily to foreshadow his own
  visionary flight and fall.
In his remarks, he again used the past to foreshadow the future of the nation.
If the species is allowed to vanish, scientists believe it will foreshadow the
  extinction of a host of other marine species.
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