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Premonition


Definition:

  • (n.) Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
  • (2) Yuri's gaze turns back to the sky, peppered now with dry fallen leaves (a premonition, perhaps, of the petals cast before the viceroy in A Passage to India).
  • (3) The event begins with a premonition of what will happen from a street name.
  • (4) His distorted image presented in court reflected what some of his accusers were, and what others took to be a premonition of the fall that was coming now that sex, like an Edenic apple, had been tasted for the first time in all its polymorphous perversity.Writing of the effects of liberalising legislation on abortion, gay sex and the reduction of censorship in the 60s, Andrew Marr in A History of Modern Britain stresses this lapsarian image: "A fair verdict is that the changes allowed the British to be more openly themselves, and that while the results are not pretty, the apple of self-knowledge cannot be uneaten again and returned to the tree."
  • (5) Premonition’s technology can optimise large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real-time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination and consumer requests such as redirected parcels.
  • (6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
  • (7) We thought it was a little film for kids: we had absolutely no premonition of the success it would have.
  • (8) Zero carbon emissions target to be enshrined in UK law Read more Premonition is working with close to a dozen Australian clients, including several “household names” with fleets in the range of 2,000-plus vehicles, according to Lorge.
  • (9) He conceded that his mother had gone a little off the rails towards the end of her life by taking up with swamis and yogis and consulting astrologers (she had premonitions, correctly, of a violent death), but she had brought him up to be agnostic and "secular", a word that in India has to bear too much hope.
  • (10) To realistically expand into this domain and have a meaningful impact, Premonition will need to expand its team of nine employees.
  • (11) Back in July, 21 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a skirmish near the Libyan border, in what some considered a premonition of what may be to come.
  • (12) Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been reported since the Renaissance.
  • (13) Today, mobile consumers want to be in control, they want to see and understand what’s happening with their delivery in real time, and they want more options and flexibility about when and where their delivery will arrive.” Premonition’s tools help shipping companies communicate directly with consumers and hit tighter delivery windows, with some clients providing windows inside 30 minutes.
  • (14) It shows the virgin with Christ in her lap, but it's a premonition of the Pietà .
  • (15) Various functions of the ego influence how time is experienced consciously, leading to phenomena such as déjà vu, a sensation of timelessness, misjudgment of time duration, the experience of premonition.
  • (16) Fits and coronary thrombosis, of which drivers frequently had some premonition, caused few serious accidents, although the latter was usually lethal.
  • (17) IBM is testing a robot concierge in a Hilton hotel , something that is both a gimmick and a premonition.
  • (18) I think it might have been a premonition on her part.
  • (19) He says Premonition’s approach is to think “about logistics as a service to consumers rather than just a network of trucks”.
  • (20) The wintry scene outside her window that morning, Wadley told the newsroom, had prompted a premonition: "I thought, 'the Russians really are coming'."

Presage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
  • (v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
  • (v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
  • (v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accumulation of mesenchyme basally presages the formation of the nasal septum.
  • (2) At the weekend Clegg presaged some of the proposals in the Liberal Democrat package saying he wanted reform of the laws on public interest defence.
  • (3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
  • (4) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
  • (5) The results suggest that manifesting once traditional sex-role characteristics for both adolescent boys and girls presages early onset and heavier adult cigarette smoking.
  • (6) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (7) Fairbairn expressed alarm after the prime minister’s conference speech appeared to presage a hardline approach to Brexit and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appeared to criticise firms employing a large proportion of foreign workers.
  • (8) drug abuse in Argentina, these results presage a significant increase in the delta agent's prevalence in the immediate future.
  • (9) The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
  • (10) The intervention, tacitly backed by the US, presaged severe, ongoing human rights abuses.
  • (11) They presage a bad prognosis and a rapid demise; the patients survive an average of four months.
  • (12) Both men will now be hoping that the relatively small fall in GDP of 0.2% does not presage a further fall in the first quarter of this year, which would denote the official return of recession and represent a blow in itself to economic confidence.
  • (13) Impaired glucose tolerance often presages the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
  • (14) The election results were awful, but not so apocalyptic as to presage extinction.
  • (15) Osborne's statements in Manchester caused anger, said the source, but more for exaggerating the impact of green policies on energy bills than any presaging of policy reversals.
  • (16) STAI following THC presaged a poor analgesic response in this group.
  • (17) A study of the various characteristic features of the heart defect before operation, and of the operative findings, has allowed us to determine a certain number of factors which presage good immediate and long-term results.
  • (18) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
  • (19) It has been suggested that a low percentage of epithelial podocyte effacement (EPE) and a high degree of epithelial cell vacuolization (ECV) in nonsclerotic glomeruli presage FSGS, and that extensive epithelial cell vacuolization in biopsies clearly showing FSGS predicts a poor clinical outcome.
  • (20) The hypothesis that blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors will prevent neuronal death presages a new era in acute stroke treatment.