presentiment

Example Sentences

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By late 2016, the seeming permanence of her move is threatened by apocalyptic presentiments unleashed by election anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times

Writing later of the bizarre extravaganza that took place that summer, de Coubertin said: “I had a sort of presentiment that the Olympiad would match the mediocrity of the town.”

From Seattle Times

In ethos and in substance, Sessions had long harbored the presentiments of Trumpism.

From New York Times

Though it got pretty bad reviews at the time, it now looks like a presentiment of the trauma launched on New York on 9/11.

From The Guardian

The lavishness turns quickly into horror — Godwin gives us buckets of blood unasked for in the original — and then into a presentiment of Lear on the heath.

From New York Times