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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
