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

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

Ramis' premonitory notion is a fairly succinct summary of what most people remember about the performer – that he was aggressively funny, a ball of jokester chaos with musical chops that augmented his comedic identity.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2020

In a moment of premonitory recognition, Betts took as his prison name “Shahid,” the Arabic word for “witness.”

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019

And on that premonitory note, we strapped up and set squelchily off up Moxie Bald Mountain.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson