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
Tempted as we may be to view this episode as premonitory, keep in mind these episodes were written and filmed many months ago.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2024
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
In a moment of premonitory recognition, Betts took as his prison name “Shahid,” the Arabic word for “witness.”
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019
He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
