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premonition

[pree-muh-nish-uhn, prem-uh-] / ˌpri mΙ™ΛˆnΙͺΚƒ Ι™n, ˌprΙ›m Ι™- /


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Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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

Dr. Bitton saw that, in a sense, everything that had passed between himself and Mr. Sinwar was a premonition of the events now coming to pass.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2024

I realized while listening to Kaitlyn that I didn’t have a premonition of hurting him.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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 ● Dec. 20, 2023

But his pleas fell on deaf ears, and his premonitions would come true.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023

Mount more or less ignores Hunter’s midcentury-masculine Pike — indeed, dark premonitions notwithstanding, he might be the chillest of all “Star Trek” captains.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022

The small community was too settled and too frightened to run and hide in the woods because of something in the air and the premonitions of a couple of kids.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff




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