bode
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–verb (used with object)
1. to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him.
2. Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict.
–verb (used without object)
3. to portend: The news bodes [well] for him.
"Valkyrie" could bode [well] for UA
A lot rides on success of the Tom Cruise film
Looking for investors, Sloan, Cruise and Wagner raised a development fund from football mogul Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins. Then, Merrill Lynch offered a $500 million credit facility contingent [on] Cruise heading the company.
contingent
–adjective
1. dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often fol. by on or upon): Our plans are contingent [on] the weather.
2. liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent [expenses].
3. happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences.
4. Logic. (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation.
–noun
5. a quota of troops furnished.
6. any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage:
the [New York] contingent at a national convention.
7. the proportion that falls to one as a share to be contributed or furnished.
8. something contingent; contingency.
ulterior (consealed, future)
prescient
augur prognosticate harbinger forboding
omen
good or bad
portent
specific event, usually a misfortune
portents of [war].
an occurrence of [dire] portent. (significance)
bespeak
Rose's petulant theatrics don't bespeak the [perils] of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, or a coarse [screenplay]
to bespeak a [seat] in a theater.
[This] bespeaks a kindly heart.
Threnody
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D
–verb (used with object)
1. to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him.
2. Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict.
–verb (used without object)
3. to portend: The news bodes [well] for him.
"Valkyrie" could bode [well] for UA
A lot rides on success of the Tom Cruise film
Looking for investors, Sloan, Cruise and Wagner raised a development fund from football mogul Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins. Then, Merrill Lynch offered a $500 million credit facility contingent [on] Cruise heading the company.
contingent
–adjective
1. dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often fol. by on or upon): Our plans are contingent [on] the weather.
2. liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent [expenses].
3. happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences.
4. Logic. (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation.
–noun
5. a quota of troops furnished.
6. any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage:
the [New York] contingent at a national convention.
7. the proportion that falls to one as a share to be contributed or furnished.
8. something contingent; contingency.
ulterior (consealed, future)
prescient
augur prognosticate harbinger forboding
omen
good or bad
portent
specific event, usually a misfortune
portents of [war].
an occurrence of [dire] portent. (significance)
bespeak
Rose's petulant theatrics don't bespeak the [perils] of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, or a coarse [screenplay]
to bespeak a [seat] in a theater.
[This] bespeaks a kindly heart.
Threnody
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