What does all this portend for the near future?
More troubling, she said, is what Google's flub may portend for the future.
A particular concern is that the recent resurgence at the euro zone's core could portend a protracted slump at its periphery.
By any measure, that's important stuff, though as with last year's invisibility cloak, it doesn't portend magical applications in the everyday world — and won't for a long, long time.
Our times portend a new age of discovery which will require new kinds of learning.
These are particularly important today as modern medicine is able to identify genes that portend high risk for certain diseases.
Even if melting glaciers provide an abundance of water in the short run, they portend a frightening endgame: the eventual depletion of Asia's greatest rivers.
The change did not portend a basic improvement in social conditions.
This could portend trouble for sanofi, which is relying on Genzyme's expertise to strengthen its presence in protein-based therapies and the rare-diseases market.
Experts say it does not portend an earthquake.
That would portend increased flows of glacial ice from Antarctica and a rise in global sea levels, endangering low-lying land areas.
The Wall Street crash does not portend big budgets for what some people see as a luxury agency like NASA.
Overcast skies portend a rough day for boats on Iceland's Lake Myvatn.
The SNS victory may portend the eclipse of the once-mighty Radicals in the next general election.
These clouds are ominous. They portend a severe storm.
Black clouds portend a storm.
