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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-boding
Adjective
  • His bruises caught by the window’s light, his good side cast in ominous shadow, Martian’s focus shifts from the people on the other side of the glass to the man staring back at him in it.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The second season of The Night Agent shows Peter on the other end of the line for that ominous White House basement phone.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Alaska story represents Perkins’ tireless brainstorming of ways to help and also, perhaps, her blind spot to a more sinister history of American settler colonialism.
    Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
  • After Season 1 introduced viewers to the offbeat, sinister world of Lumon Industries, the Innies that make up its workforce, and the Outies compartmentalizing their lives, Season 2 is now unfolding deeper, stranger intricacies that speak to how corporations deal with dissenters.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That inter-zone between the two is where Lynch lived his entire professional life: in his paintings and writings, shorts and TV shows, and even his daily online weather reports, which somehow took on both a boyish and a menacing quality.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Onlookers captured them interacting and throwing paper planes at one another, all under the watchful eye of the Tillman’s menacing Milchick.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Ill-boding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-boding. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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