premonition
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When access to these documents was finally promised, three months later, Mathipa had a premonition that he would be murdered - according to Brig Paulina Sekgobela, his commanding officer.
From BBC β Aug. 9, 2026
Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 28, 2025
Braxton: I’m sticking with my previous pick of Victoria having a premonition.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 9, 2025
Our former faith in manifest destiny always included another possibility; let’s call it a premonition of manifest doom.
From Salon β Jan. 21, 2025
Did the lad have some kind of premonition?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 27, 2026
His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.
From Science Magazine β Dec. 20, 2023
But his pleas fell on deaf ears, and his premonitions would come true.
From BBC β Sep. 19, 2023
But she also gradually punctures those upbeat vibes with tremulous notes of vulnerability and premonitions of disaster, right around the time her Barbie notices a patch of cellulite and begins having incongruous thoughts of death.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 18, 2023
All were engrossed in early-night reminiscences about dreams, figures, premonitions.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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