premonition
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Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The first part of Mulder's premonition has proven to be true - Hayen's Brugge beat Villa, Sporting and Sturm Graz in the group phase, as well as drawing with Juventus and Celtic.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
Our former faith in manifest destiny always included another possibility; let’s call it a premonition of manifest doom.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
But now, more than 20 years later, it also feels like a premonition.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
I hesitated for a moment over the keyboard—struck by a premonition that this was information I might regret knowing—then typed “Ruby Ridge” into the browser.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
But his pleas fell on deaf ears, and his premonitions would come true.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023
But she also gradually punctures those upbeat vibes with tremulous notes of vulnerability and premonitions of disaster, right around the time her Barbie notices a patch of cellulite and begins having incongruous thoughts of death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
I was sure I was having premonitions that Lio had not escaped after all.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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