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Which genre often uses premonition as a plot device?

premonition

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


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Phillips, she thinks, created a premonition for what was to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

Instead, he jumped right into this aggressive spiel about how he was fully aware Stan's hadn’t been the only death premonition I’d experienced.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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

But his good intentions were shattered by the strength of Clara’s premonitions.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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