prophesy

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When we set out to make this film, No Choice, we hoped to imagine a plausible future — not to prophesy our present reality.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

The crowd, composed mostly of New York and L.A. rap cognoscenti who had invented or dominated the genre, jeered, nearly heckling Outkast offstage — but not before André reeled off a prophesy.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Mr Darko told the BBC that the police lost a case earlier this year against a pastor who had been charged for allegedly making an alarmist prophesy about a celebrity musician being shot.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2022

This gap apparently also applies to prophesy, as we see at the episode’s end: one last explicit tie to “Game of Thrones,” which was a broad-stroke retelling of “Game of Thrones.”

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2022

“Perhaps someday your cricket will play as well. I prophesy great things for a creature of such ability, Mario.”

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden