as in feel
a feeling that something bad will happen
she had a premonition that her cat would somehow get hurt that day
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Recent Examples of premonition
Instead, the film follows a woman, Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), whose grandmother, Iris (Gabrielle Rose), had a premonition and survived a tower collapse decades ago.
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Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 May 2025
The ensuing explosion incinerates them both. 22. North Bay Bridge collapse (Final Destination 5)
The premonition that kicks off Final Destination 5 starts off weak.
—Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
The production’s most elaborate sequence to shoot was Alex’s premonition, in which audiences would see the inside of the plane tear apart.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2025
Humanity, in the novel, has lived under the recurrent threat of catastrophically destructive memes—dark, self-fulfilling premonitions of scarcity, zero-sum competition, fear, mistrust, inegalitarianism.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
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Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 May 2025
The ensuing explosion incinerates them both. 22. North Bay Bridge collapse (Final Destination 5)
The premonition that kicks off Final Destination 5 starts off weak.
—Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
The production’s most elaborate sequence to shoot was Alex’s premonition, in which audiences would see the inside of the plane tear apart.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2025
Humanity, in the novel, has lived under the recurrent threat of catastrophically destructive memes—dark, self-fulfilling premonitions of scarcity, zero-sum competition, fear, mistrust, inegalitarianism.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for premonition
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The good ones help cut down on breakage, smooth out frizz, and can make every at-home blow-dry feel professional.—
Daisy Maldonado,
Glamour,
20 June 2025
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Our tester loved the silky-soft fabric and praised the luxe feel and chic design of this pick.—
Esme Benjamin,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Toni has been reluctant to let Amalie go out by herself—her bringing back a telescope seems to confirm some kind of fear, or presentiment.—
Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
21 July 2024
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His presentiments had been right, but all those garlic pills and pulse recordings had done nothing to save him.—
Gillian Silverman,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2023
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Levine also challenged Ono’s inaction as a pro-Hamas encampment took hold in the heart of Michigan’s campus, causing terror and fear among Jewish students.—
Avi D. Gordon,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
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After a den of thieves ransacked a rural Northern California home so many times that the owner fled in fear, the property fell into even wilder hands: a group of bears, authorities said.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, European leaders and many U.S. defense and security experts were anticipating this week’s NATO summit with foreboding.—
Howard LaFranchi,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 June 2025
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The series has so much escapist potential in its initial episodes, poking at the absurdities of abundant wealth and ladling in so much silly foreboding, only to squander it because the series is unable to create anything resembling an emotional payoff.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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Or indeed there will be suspicions of Russian perfidy - as happened over Syria.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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See Season 7 schedule McDonald's Snack Wraps are officially coming back: Here's when Huge 400-pound alligator captured in North Carolina on 'suspicion of being a dinosaur' A new Lululemon dress is stirring up the internet.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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The fact Ishiba’s LDP faces an election on July 20 only heightens the BOJ’s worries about the political establishment striking back.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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But plenty of Republicans have expressed worries about the provision as well, imperiling its passage.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
25 June 2025
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The key question investors and the Fed are trying to answer is whether this slight slackening presages a far worse outlook, even a recession, or whether reports of rising uncertainty merely reflect people’s feelings, not economic reality.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
18 June 2025
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The result is chaos, bewilderment and delay that presages rising consumer prices.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Premonition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/premonition. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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