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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

He didn’t know which premonition the rat was talking about, but he knew enough about the infamous Hesterfowl not to care.

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

He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 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His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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

His efforts to systematize his premonitions were useless.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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