presentiment
Example Sentences
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It’s the type of hazards and presentiment that feel inherent to womanhood.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024
Though it got pretty bad reviews at the time, it now looks like a presentiment of the trauma launched on New York on 9/11.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2020
That image, the presentiment it carried, startled him out of his own morass, he said.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010
Or maybe Mami had a presentiment of what was to come.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 15, 2010
Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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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