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- adjective comparable
Obscured . - adjective comparable
Foreshadowed . - adjective heraldry Depicted on a shield as an
outline instead of as a solid figure. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
adumbrate .
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Examples
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Too, the tone in which the survival and natural selection principles are adumbrated is obviously naturalistic.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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What you've here adumbrated is why I have my bedside clock-radio set to wake me to the Today programme.
Boaden Beats Her Own World Record Newmania 2008
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To that person is reserved the pleasure of fathoming the intention, of completing the idea adumbrated by the composer.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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Congratulations: This is the first time that I have encountered the word 'adumbrated' in print.
unknown title 2009
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Congratulations: This is the first time that I have encountered the word 'adumbrated' in print.
unknown title 2009
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Congratulations: This is the first time that I have encountered the word 'adumbrated' in print.
unknown title 2009
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Nearly two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, the grievances it adumbrated are belatedly coming true—but in Britain, rather than in North America.
A Letter to America Daniel Hannan 2011
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The women of his own race and place had never adumbrated such a possibility.
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Freshly out of rehab, Quirke begins drinking again and frankly, one can't blame him – there's his grim childhood on top of the daughter business (adumbrated here but detailed in the first two books), plus the fact that Dublin in the 50s was small-minded and stifling as well as foggy and soggy.
Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review Laura Wilson 2010
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… Every time he closed his eyes, her adumbrated silhouette burnt with inedible precision into his retina, bought back the pain he was trying to run from.
manilamac commented on the word adumbrated
As his close associate on most of his ventures at that time, Winston Lord, adumbrated these heady days to the author, "U.S. foreign policy was at an absolute peak," with the Nixon-Kissinger team looking "poised to continue to build a structure of peace."
KISSINGER
1973, the Crucial Year
By Alistair Horne
August 5, 2009