premonitory
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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
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 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
Vocabulary lists containing premonitory
A Walk in the Woods
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges
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