premonition
noun
a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment.
premonitions
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pluralof premonition.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
But his pleas fell on deaf ears, and his premonitions would come true.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2023
But she also gradually punctures those upbeat vibes with tremulous notes of vulnerability and premonitions of disaster, right around the time her Barbie notices a patch of cellulite and begins having incongruous thoughts of death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Alone, abandoned by his premonitions, fleeing the chill that was to accompany him until death, he sought a last refuge in Macondo in the warmth of his oldest memories.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
