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
Dr. Bitton saw that, in a sense, everything that had passed between himself and Mr. Sinwar was a premonition of the events now coming to pass.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2024
Olanna imagined it was because Baby, too, had the same premonition.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Evil Ezekiel, meanwhile, hoards the spider peptides for himself, and 30 years later, he’s now a sort of cursed dark Spider-man, tormented by premonitions of being killed by a trio of spunky Spider-women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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
As for my premonitions, they seem to be in remission, for the moment anyway.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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