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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Biblical writings, which lie at the root of Western culture, make numerous mention of portents in the heavens.
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Consequently, the parents often seize on anything as a portent which confirms their wishes.
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His faith never wavered, even when Albert became so disturbed by the portents that he could not sleep and fell ill.
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Pundits tried not to read too much symbolic portent into the calamity.
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The portents are not what one would call auspicious.
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Their first meeting was a portent .
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Were there signs and portents in the sky on the night I was born?