as in premonition
a feeling that something bad will happen
a nagging presentiment of danger
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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.
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Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
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
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
Seen from behind, men and women bundled up in heavy coats are saturated with a mute presentiment, that of people beginning to endure.
—Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
Those years, of course, marked respectively the peak of the frenzied optimism of the last business cycle and the first chilling presentiments of what was to come.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
During the 1919 scenes she is occasionally stopped in her tracks by presentiments of what’s in store around the corner.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
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
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
Seen from behind, men and women bundled up in heavy coats are saturated with a mute presentiment, that of people beginning to endure.
—Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
Those years, of course, marked respectively the peak of the frenzied optimism of the last business cycle and the first chilling presentiments of what was to come.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
During the 1919 scenes she is occasionally stopped in her tracks by presentiments of what’s in store around the corner.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presentiment
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Equally, Ena weighs in with a large sense of historical premonition.John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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In 1943, Nena is a teenager who longs for adventure while plagued by premonitions.Theara Coleman, theweek, 7 Oct. 2024
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The Saatva Rx mattress is ideal for people with hip pain because of its balanced feel.Rachel Tavel, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2024
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Adding to the upscale feel is a clean kitchen design that uses a slide-out worktop cover over the sink for a seamless look that doesn't skimp on functional space – the worktop can be used atop the sink or when extended out.New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2024
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And of course, there’s still the fear that AI could eventually replace human creatives altogether.Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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Counselors are provided tip sheets to help guide callers to helpful resources, whether that's a local mental-health professional or unbiased information that can allay their fears about specific uncertainties about the election.Alice Park, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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The suspicion arose from the open-source documents submitted by teams to the FIA, which were then closely analyzed by competing teams.Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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But as western North Carolina begins what will no doubt be a long rebuilding effort, local suspicions about the agency have mounted, amplified by national political figures sharing conspiratorial ideas.Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
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This worry crossed party lines, with similar levels of concern reported among both Republicans and Democrats.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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But ultimately the brief worry leads to an important conversation about your future.Jennifer Culp, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Equities near their all-time highs are doing nothing to ease BTIG’s sense of short-term foreboding.Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
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Beginning in the 1990s, a revolution of personal, materialistic aspirations—an extension of the one that Alexis de Tocqueville had witnessed with much foreboding in the United States in the 1830s—swept the world.Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
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