premonitory
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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
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
The title, which came early in the process, proved premonitory.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2020
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing premonitory
A Walk in the Woods
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges
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