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premonition

[pree-muh-nish-uhn, prem-uh-] / ˌpri məˈnɪʃ ən, ˌprɛm ə- /


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Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

“I always feel people become more themselves when they’re in their house,” Reinsve tells me on a cloudless autumn morning at Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 premonition of California modernism.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 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

I hadn’t had a personalized death premonition or anything like that, but I knew that sooner or later it would be my turn to go.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx




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