Thesaurus / portent
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Instead, the book seems to grapple with the question of how humanity deals with horrifying, large-scale change—and particularly, how complacency can outlast even the most obvious portents of disaster.
‘SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN’ IS A CLIMATE-CHANGE MYSTERY SET IN HOLLYWOODSMURGUIAOCTOBER 9, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEAmateur prognosticators, freelance seers, searchers for signs and pursuers of portents may regard Friday, which started the new year, with special scrutiny.
FIRST DAY OF NEW YEAR UNUSUALLY CHILLY, UNUSUALLY WETMARTIN WEILJANUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIf Cutler’s optimism is a portent of things to come, it may not be long before the ocean floor is dotted with sustainable datacenters to feed our ever-increasing reliance on our phones and the internet.
MICROSOFT HAD A CRAZY IDEA TO PUT SERVERS UNDER WATER—AND IT TOTALLY WORKEDVANESSA BATES RAMIREZSEPTEMBER 17, 2020SINGULARITY HUB It sounds ominously amid the stillness, like the portent of some calamity, horrible and sudden.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANShould purchases and rumoured purchases of land prove to be a portent, Dafydd had all to lose and nothing to gain by change.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSThe silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.
WARRIOR GAPCHARLES KINGIt was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILLGILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere was some hidden portent in her tone which Jarvis failed to divine.
THE GHOST BREAKERCHARLES GODDARDHer imperiousness changed as the tremendous portent of her words seemed to make Las Vegas a blank, stone image of a man.
THE MAN OF THE FORESTZANE GREYWhen he had gone she somehow had the feeling that a great fiery meteor of unknown portent had swept across her sky.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEWORDS RELATED TO PORTENT
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