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ill-boding

adjective as in ominous

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In Ava DuVernay’s 2014 movie “Selma,” for example, the singer’s ill-boding cover of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” plays during the climactic scene, as marchers are beaten while trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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With those ill-boding words the third day closed since Pippin came to Minas Tirith.

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North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency warned Sunday that an effort by South Korea to link reconciliation to denuclearization was “ill-boding” and risked “chilling the atmosphere.”

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Santiago, working with what he called “bad fastball command,” went on to walk two men in the inning before pitching out of the ill-boding jam.

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The US is not immune to these ill-boding trends whose great beneficiary and hero du jour is Donald Trump.

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

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