presentiment
Example Sentences
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Dunne’s own theory about how time worked, which he called Serialism, was hard to follow, but he encouraged readers to keep dream diaries and to see if their presentiments materialized.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
It’s bleakly funny and exciting, but also terrifying in its presentiments of pure evil.
From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2018
Several hundred responded, and today I'll compare the hive-mind presentiments with my own, laying down our markers as we begin yet another journey around the sun.
From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 3, 2015
On yet another domineering day for England in the second Test, even Australia's occasional moral victories contained presentiments of the crushing defeat to come.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2010
I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing presentiment
Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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Grade 12, List 6
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Jane Eyre
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