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Recent Examples of premonition Each movie centered on a character who has a premonition of a horrific and deadly event. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025 Perhaps reluctance founded in a dread premonition? Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025 The earlier photo feels like a premonition. Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 How did their mother deal with this premonition? Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for premonition
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Noun
  • That may be geographically massive, but having one baseball team can inspire almost a small-town feel.
    Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Sofas are being brought in to give the place a homey feel.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The lavishness turns quickly into horror — Godwin gives us buckets of blood unasked for in the original — and then into a presentiment of Lear on the heath.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • The interlocking deals also have boosted fears of a bubble in AI spending, particularly as many of these partnerships involve OpenAI, a fast-growing but unprofitable business.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes, a long pause in stalking behavior is a tactic designed to create more fear by allowing the victim to drop their guard before restarting the behavior, said Aims Babich, director of survivor services at SafeHouse Denver, an emergency shelter for survivors of domestic violence.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Duane, who also has a bad knee, strained the old injury, adding physical pain to his feeling of foreboding.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Ultimately, this dark and foreboding-sounding class is spirited and life-affirming.
    Molly Ryder Granatino, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over 83 pitches and six innings in that Seattle start, the righty’s suspicions grew.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • While Victim 2 took a pass on the hypercar offer -- as did an Indy car driver known as Victim 1 -- because of his suspicions about Rogers, Michael Mente did not.
    Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dreaming of worry-free cleaning?
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Washington — Persistent worries about the higher cost of living and few job opportunities pushed consumer sentiment down to its seventh-lowest level in October, on records going back to 1952.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 20 Oct. 2025.

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