premonition
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Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
“I always feel people become more themselves when they’re in their house,” Reinsve tells me on a cloudless autumn morning at Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 premonition of California modernism.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
The first part of Mulder's premonition has proven to be true - Hayen's Brugge beat Villa, Sporting and Sturm Graz in the group phase, as well as drawing with Juventus and Celtic.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
Our former faith in manifest destiny always included another possibility; let’s call it a premonition of manifest doom.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
It seemed that he could feel the prolonged blow of it sinking through his skull, and suddenly with an old premonition he clapped the brakes on and stopped and sat perfectly still.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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