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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

Phillips, she thinks, created a premonition for what was to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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

Years later, Joshua Colemans granddaughters would recall their grandfather saying that from their first meeting, he had a premonition that Jimmy Goble would not live a long life.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

There are almost no conversations, only premonitions and plans delivered in bullet-points like a group research project.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.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

Alone, abandoned by his premonitions, fleeing the chill that was to accompany him until death, he sought a last refuge in Macondo in the warmth of his oldest memories.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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