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Which genre often uses premonition as a plot device?

premonition

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


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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 ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

Our former faith in manifest destiny always included another possibility; let’s call it a premonition of manifest doom.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

“Remember Hesterfowl’s premonition about the one in Deadwood vanishing forever? That’s me. I’m being forced out. Replaced.”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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

His premonitions soon proved to be grounded in fact.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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