premonitions

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  1. noun A presentiment of the future; a foreboding.
  2. noun A warning in advance; a forewarning.

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  • Sammler believed in premonitions, and death was a powerful instigator of erotic ideas. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • It must be well above that point that the aeroplane enters the danger zone -- always presuming that my premonitions are correct Aeroplaning has been with us now for more than twenty years, and one might well ask: Why should this peril be only revealing itself in our day? —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
  • Unfortunately, her premonitions were usually right. —  The Tree of Death
  • In another 'Beyond the Blog' Anthony North takes a look at the topic of premonitions, the concept of seeing the ... —  Unexplained Mysteries
  • That person generally gets many "false" bad premonitions, but only remembers the ones lucky enough to happen near an actual event. —  AZ Snakepit
 

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