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
It snowed before dawn, a light dusting of snowflakes, a presentiment of the deep snows that would come further into the winter.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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