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  • n  a feeling of evil to come
    the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case

  • As he sees it, intuition, at least the successful kind, is something more than vague presentiment.
  • There are moments in Suez when audiences may feel a presentiment that Ferdinand de Lesseps is about to start humming Marie, the Dawn Is Breaking.
  • Still, the presentiment of danger always lurked, and several dozen people reportedly were injured in clashes with police and troops.

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