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presentiment
noun as in anticipation, expectation
Example Sentences
By late 2016, the seeming permanence of her move is threatened by apocalyptic presentiments unleashed by election anxiety.
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?”
I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
Writing later of the bizarre extravaganza that took place that summer, de Coubertin said: “I had a sort of presentiment that the Olympiad would match the mediocrity of the town.”
In ethos and in substance, Sessions had long harbored the presentiments of Trumpism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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