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
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.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
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
Ramis' premonitory notion is a fairly succinct summary of what most people remember about the performer – that he was aggressively funny, a ball of jokester chaos with musical chops that augmented his comedic identity.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2020
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
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