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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rising infection rates portend a health-care disaster.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everyone knew that its sound portended the death of some one in the house within the year.
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For the cellular industry, this may portend a daunting new world.
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It might portend something more: the beginning of an ideological countertrend.
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Nature seems to portend no danger and is there to be utilised by Marlowe and his lover almost as a playground.
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She sees a shooting star and is heartened by whatever hope it might portend , but before long she is crying again.
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The failure in New York portended even further trouble.
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We need to set the standards now, and prepare for the theological and sociological turbulence this discovery portends.
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What universal debauchery this might portend for our nation!