portent

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If films about catastrophe often take a schematic, meet-the-victims approach to their opening scenes, Ms. Littman renders hers with persuasive vibrancy, too full of life to have room for heavy-handed portent.

From The Wall Street Journal

But portents of doom have followed Rachel from the start.

From The Wall Street Journal

Maybe they had portents that it could be like this.

From BBC

That usually unremarkable occurrence proved to be a portent for the exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal

That seemed a portent of more to come as the June primary inches ever closer.

From Los Angeles Times