premonitions

noun

plural of premonition
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 The data in the new study validates these premonitions. — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026 Again, people have premonitions. — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 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 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 New research shows Hinton’s premonitions about the insubordinate streak of AI may already be a reality. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026 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 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 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. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for premonitions
  1. feels
  2. prognostications
  3. suspicions
Noun
  • 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.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
  • The area is expecting to see a high of 93 degrees on July 4 with a feels-like temperature close to 100.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Definition of feels
Noun
  • Evans, a 6-foot-6 guard from Duke, said he wasn’t offended by prognostications that place him late in the first round.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • Not that these prognostications are wrong.
    — Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Definition of prognostications
Noun
  • At least 60 Israelis have been indicted on charges of spying for Iran, but this appears to be the first time an American has been detained in Israel on similar suspicions.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The suspect was arrested in a joint operation by the Israel Police and Shin Bet Security Agency after suspicions were raised by international security officials, according to Ynetnews.
    — Sophia Mandt, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026
Definition of suspicions

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