prophetic
Example Sentences
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Too stilted in phrasing to our modern poll-tested ears, it was nevertheless, as she said in the video of her retirement announcement, “prophetic.”
From Salon
“It seems prophetic now that the slogan of my very first campaign in 1987 was, ‘A voice that will be heard,’ and it was you who made those words come true.
From Los Angeles Times
A solo oboe was a prophetic voice in the wilderness.
From Los Angeles Times
Murphy couldn’t have realized then how prophetic his note to Friedman would turn out to be.
A photograph of him at age 3, posing on the Olympic Stadium field with his dad and dressed in a full Expos uniform, has remained an indelible image that proved prophetic.
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