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Six example sentences with presentiment, each labelled with its topic.
A presentiment settles over the household in chapter two, and by the fourth the reader is dreading every knock.
Literature
The score plants a presentiment three scenes early, one held cello note under an otherwise ordinary family breakfast.
Movies
Passengers wrote home of a presentiment about the voyage, though such letters look prophetic only once the ending is known.
History
Psychologists find a presentiment before bad news is remembered only when the news arrives, and forgotten every other time.
Psychology
The trader's presentiment before the crash is easy to claim now, though her diary that week shows she bought more shares.
Finance
A presentiment kept the guide off the glacier that morning, and by noon the sky had turned the color of slate.
Travel
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