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a foreshadowing vs the foreshadowing

Both 'a foreshadowing' and 'the foreshadowing' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'A foreshadowing' is used when referring to a general or unspecified instance of foreshadowing, while 'the foreshadowing' is used when referring to a specific or known instance of foreshadowing.

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a foreshadowing

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'a foreshadowing' when referring to a general or unspecified instance of foreshadowing in a story or narrative.
  • A foreshadowing of hardship and death.
  • And it's foreshadowing a threat we will not take lightly.
  • What we are dealing with here is not symbols of national power or the foreshadowing of a 'unified European nation state', but entirely practical operating problems of the Community's internal market.
  • In it, half the population, faced with a gigantic war of destruction, toil away for the National Democratic Revolution foreshadowing a Laos that is independent, democratic and prosperous.
  • No, really, you've done a good job of foreshadowing by starting the script with the Bat Mitzvah video, giving us a hint of the horror to come.
  • Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades 60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.
  • So we're about to make out and it'll dissolve to the shoes by the bed just like the foreshadowing poster.
  • With just the very name, Irving establishes the mood and tone, foreshadowing the horror which is to come.
  • Add the foreshadowing by showing a glimpse of a at the end, Voila!
  • And after this time on December 25th, the Sun moves 1 degree, this time north, foreshadowing longer days, warmth, and Spring.
  • I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day.
  • Even 2000 years later, there'd still be believers (lol. foreshadowing?)
  • So, maybe looking back now, It could have been foreshadowing what could have happened,
  • the signature of the EC-ESA Framework Agreement on 25 November 2003 as well as the Council Resolution of 13 May 2003 on European Space Policy, foreshadowing this agreement.

Alternatives:

  • foreshadowing
  • an example of foreshadowing
  • a hint of what is to come

the foreshadowing

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'the foreshadowing' when referring to a specific or known instance of foreshadowing in a story or narrative.
  • So we're about to make out and it'll dissolve to the shoes by the bed just like the foreshadowing poster.
  • I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day.
  • Add the foreshadowing by showing a glimpse of a at the end, Voila!
  • What we are dealing with here is not symbols of national power or the foreshadowing of a 'unified European nation state', but entirely practical operating problems of the Community's internal market.
  • With just the very name, Irving establishes the mood and tone, foreshadowing the horror which is to come.
  • In it, half the population, faced with a gigantic war of destruction, toil away for the National Democratic Revolution foreshadowing a Laos that is independent, democratic and prosperous.
  • A foreshadowing of hardship and death.
  • And it's foreshadowing a threat we will not take lightly.
  • Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades 60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.
  • And after this time on December 25th, the Sun moves 1 degree, this time north, foreshadowing longer days, warmth, and Spring.
  • No, really, you've done a good job of foreshadowing by starting the script with the Bat Mitzvah video, giving us a hint of the horror to come.
  • Even 2000 years later, there'd still be believers (lol. foreshadowing?)
  • So, maybe looking back now, It could have been foreshadowing what could have happened,
  • the signature of the EC-ESA Framework Agreement on 25 November 2003 as well as the Council Resolution of 13 May 2003 on European Space Policy, foreshadowing this agreement.

Alternatives:

  • that foreshadowing
  • the hint of what is to come
  • the premonition

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