foreboding
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In Atlanta, her visionary cosmologies read as foreboding, otherworldly—paradise lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Since then, he feels a sense of foreboding whenever dark clouds signal the onset of another storm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But a 0.1-percent dip in food services sales could reflect that people are opting to drive less -- a foreboding sign for broader spending in the services sector.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Our trusted sources in Iran spoke with opposition activists, human rights lawyers and independent journalists and found a mood of foreboding.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
It only increased her foreboding of the meeting that lay ahead.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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All day, gray clouds clustered overhead, adding to forebodings, and ratifying forecasts of a gathering storm.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Heaven finds a new life at her estranged grandparents’ exquisite Boston mansion, but even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019
The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2018
The sounds could be heard as flashbacks or as forebodings.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
Despite Dad’s forebodings, there were no ponies or roadsters.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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