as in presentiments
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 premonitions
Retroactively, they were interpreted as premonitions of the 1994 violence that saw many thousands of locals, primarily Tutsis, massacred at the hands of Hutu Génocidaires.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2026
Again, people have premonitions.
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Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
They are also filled with apocalyptic premonitions that make sense only in a first-century context, when Jesus was credibly thought by his followers to soon be on his way back home, ready to take believers up to Heaven, or the moon, with him.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
New research shows Hinton’s premonitions about the insubordinate streak of AI may already be a reality.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
The data in the new study validates these premonitions.
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Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
14 Feb. 2026
The youngest chewing-gum seller would adopt the conspiratorial tones of a seasoned Kremlinologist, seeing signs and premonitions in every event.
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Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
The earliest calls feel almost like premonitions, fragile voices that foreshadow the terror that would soon sweep across the Hill Country.
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Amanda Jackson,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 2025
But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Nov. 2025
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2026
Again, people have premonitions.
—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
They are also filled with apocalyptic premonitions that make sense only in a first-century context, when Jesus was credibly thought by his followers to soon be on his way back home, ready to take believers up to Heaven, or the moon, with him.
—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
New research shows Hinton’s premonitions about the insubordinate streak of AI may already be a reality.
—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
The data in the new study validates these premonitions.
—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
14 Feb. 2026
The youngest chewing-gum seller would adopt the conspiratorial tones of a seasoned Kremlinologist, seeing signs and premonitions in every event.
—
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
The earliest calls feel almost like premonitions, fragile voices that foreshadow the terror that would soon sweep across the Hill Country.
—
Amanda Jackson,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 2025
But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance.
—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for premonitions
Noun
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The feels-like temperature was 103 degrees ahead of the match, prompting many men to go shirtless outside the gates and a few to dunk their heads in a reflecting pool by the main entrance.
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The area is expecting to see a high of 93 degrees on July 4 with a feels-like temperature close to 100.
Noun
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Evans, a 6-foot-6 guard from Duke, said he wasn’t offended by prognostications that place him late in the first round.
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Not that these prognostications are wrong.
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She was arrested after raising suspicions during a baggage screening, the Australian Federal Police said in a statement on its website.
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Indeed, suspicions of the motivations related to anything that would expose students to more (rather than less) of the neighbor waging war against Ukraine almost derailed the project.
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“Premonitions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/premonitions. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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