Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FOREWARNING
FOREWARNING
Definitions of FOREWARNING
- An advance warning; an omen.
- inflection of forewarn
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using FOREWARNING in a Sentence
- Supporting Clarke's claim that intelligence forewarning of attacks had been delivered to the president prior to 9/11, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, the sole member of the 9/11 Commission permitted (under an agreement with the Bush administration) to read the President's Daily Brief, said that these had contained "an extraordinary spike" in intelligence warnings of al-Qaeda attacks that had "plateaued at a spike level for months" before 9/11.
- Through the later 19th century travel by Cobb & Co coach was increasingly romanticized in literature but when Henry Lawson wrote the famous poem forewarning of its demise; The Lights of Cobb & Co in 1897, the days of coaching were already coming to an end in Victoria and New South Wales and Australia was an increasingly urbanised society.
- He visited Germany, where in 1933 he witnessed the trial of Georgi Dimitrov for, allegedly, setting the Reichstag on fire, a forewarning of what National Socialism was to engender.
- Nazi symbols, the display of which is heavily restricted in Germany, were used at several locations; while the filmmakers gave forewarning to local residents, a passerby witnessing the use of swastikas during filming in Berlin filed an official complaint with the city.
- Semaphores with a "fishtail" end (that is, a V-notch end) are "distant" signals conveying to the engineer what the aspect of the next signal is (as a forewarning).
- Conor Oge Mac Dermot, with his kinsmen, afterwards set out on an excursion against the Clann-Maurice; but a forewarning of their intentions having reached the Clann-Maurice, they had all their forces in readiness to meet them; but the others advanced as far as the town of Brees, despite them, and burned it, both buildings and corn, and slew many persons around it; and Conor and his people afterwards returned, by dint of prowess, without any of them receiving injury.
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