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View definitions for premonitory

premonitory

adjective as in warning

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Tempted as we may be to view this episode as premonitory, keep in mind these episodes were written and filmed many months ago.

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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.

I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the door, he entered, and at once began to speak:—

I wondered, too, about a similar narrative distortion that aims to make Dean’s sense of an oncoming pandemic seem premonitory.

A premonitory energy, an inchoate awareness, powers us along like a perfectly modulated engine, barely audible but filling every line with tension, the tension of knowing we’re heading inexorably toward the unknown.

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

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