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I ordered two of these soft Vera Bradley cotton masks solely as mood boosters to combat the bleakness of late-fall weather and the foreboding winter that’s forecast, but they’ve quickly proved ideal for my runs.

The duo, who form There Is Studio and specialize in combining typography and photo illustration, created an eerie, foreboding sense of isolation with a frosted window outside their east London home.

From Time

Samson paints a dark and foreboding future of social unrest, unemployment and widespread criminality in Kitwe if there isn’t a new allocation.

From Ozy

Season six is big on the sense of foreboding doom, and it doesn’t always do it well — but here it’s still fresh enough to be unsettling and effective.

From Vox

Those turned off by the foreboding -packaging may turn to more holistic sleep-wellness methods.

From Time

The sense of foreboding mounted by the day as IS fighters surrounded the Sinjar district on three sides.

There was one foreboding clue as to what was to come for the house members.

Plus the moors where she lives—all cascading waterfalls and glowing fairies and foreboding thorns—are rather lovely to look at it.

And their deaths have heightened the tensions and the sense of foreboding that something bigger and more brutal may happen soon.

On August 15, 1982, Mary appeared with a foreboding message.

He remembered standing once before on this very spot, that foreboding of coming loneliness so strangely in his heart.

She waited for no further formalities, but shaken with the sure foreboding of calamity, turned and fled the room.

A horrible foreboding gripped me, and I quickly knelt down and raised the dog's head.

Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.

The air seemed full of foreboding; everything seemed to tell him of calamity.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foreboding, such as: apprehension, dread, premonition, anxiety, apprehensiveness, and augury.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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