premonitory

Example Sentences

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As premonitory cinema goes, “Brazil” is perhaps matched only by Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 “Network.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

Tempted as we may be to view this episode as premonitory, keep in mind these episodes were written and filmed many months ago.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2024

Adnan’s fantasy of escaping this planet’s gravity reverberates now with extra premonitory vision, but it’s also a lament of the violence we inflict upon it and ourselves, and the sadness of abandoning something so beautiful.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

I wondered, too, about a similar narrative distortion that aims to make Dean’s sense of an oncoming pandemic seem premonitory.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2021

In 1598, one of the many premonitory tremors of the coming Thirty Years’ War engulfed him.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan