- plural of prophecy.
prophecies
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Speech-act theory explains why predictions like these can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Forgive me, but I have seen and heard prophecies emanating from what must be the same Doomsday Machine before.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
I was a fresh-faced high school senior, living out the prime of my teenage youth in an increasingly progressive world where fundamentalist doomsday prophecies were lobbed around in jest.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
"If you keep looking at your age, you go back to these self-fulfilling prophecies," Peters says.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
