Thesaurus results for ADUMBRATE

adumbrate

verb

ˈa-dəm-ˌbrāt

as in to anticipate

to give a slight indication of beforehand the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow

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Recent Examples of adumbrate In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned. —

Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019 Nothing in America’s tepid 19th-century contributions to European classical music adumbrated it; nor did the homely and sometimes hokey popular songs of Stephen Foster. —

Heather Mac Donald, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019 The helicopter crash, on the other hand, is a narrative dead end, merely adumbrating the portrait that Mr. Davenport will draw of Mr. Bezos as unflappable. —

Randall Stross, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018

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Meteorologists anticipate strong Santa Ana winds to persist for another week, elevating the risk of more wildfires and the rapid growth of active blazes.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
At that point, analysts anticipate that the fund would only be enough to pay roughly 80 percent of what beneficiaries are owed.

— Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025