presentiment

Example Sentences

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It’s the type of hazards and presentiment that feel inherent to womanhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

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 • Feb. 27, 2020

Or maybe Mami had a presentiment of what was to come.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 15, 2010

Maybe it was a presentiment, maybe it was the sort of destiny that Yiddish calls “goyrl.”

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2010

Finding my seat at last, I was overcome with a presentiment of worse things to come.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou