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

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

Yet things soon start to go awry, and Danny, who has telepathic and premonitory abilities, is the only one who sees the danger coming.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2017

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