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Which genre often uses premonition as a plot device?

premonition

[pree-muh-nish-uhn, prem-uh-] / ˌpri mΙ™ΛˆnΙͺΚƒ Ι™n, ˌprΙ›m Ι™- /


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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

The supermarket gave him a premonition of something sinister to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

“The premonition is the reason I’m going. I’ve got to figure out how to stop it. No one will know you sent me,” he vowed.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

But if these rumbling premonitions have remained true across multiple eras of an ever-evolving media landscape, have we really learned anything?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

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His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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

And after all those months flying solo, it was a bit of a relief to be with someone who knew about my premonitions and wasn’t completely freaked.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx




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