prophesy

In 1844, the Rev. Bush wrote "The Valley of the Vision, or The Dry Bones Revived," interpreting the biblical Book of Ezekiel to prophesy the return of the Jews to Palestine.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Only Chani manages to escape the trap of prophesy and bloodlines, of arranged marriage, designer babies and the dream of world domination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

What did you think of that moment, and what that prophesy amounts to, 200 years down the line?

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

One of their three unreleased songs Love In The City could almost be a prophesy of what befell them.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022

“But if we could only get her to prophesy now, she might tell us something important.”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

An apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025

But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

But the sun no longer shines on their quaint German town, and Ellen prophesies that something is wrong.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

Tech industry hype and doomsday prophesies around A.I.-enhanced chatbots like ChatGPT sent many schools scrambling this year to block or limit the use of the tools in classrooms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Tom and Eb were sullen and resentful for days that their prophesies of an easy victory should so early have taken on a hollow ring.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

When she was little, a neighbor heard her singing along to the radio and prophesied to Carol’s mother: “Someday she’ll be famous.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

This, he prophesied, would lead to an unbreakable coalition that could fundamentally reshape the nation’s politics for the next half-century.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2024

“This guy is going to be champion of the world someday,” Egan prophesied in 2006.

From BBC ● May 16, 2024

The arc of the moral universe is long, Martin Luther King Jr., prophesied so many years ago, but it bends toward justice.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2024

His wife’s face, sodden with the six-hour self-accusatory depression which she had prophesied, manifested itself on the vidscreen.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

It is often called ritual theatre for its electrifying drama, featuring daring acts like fire-walking, diving into burning embers, chanting occult verses, and prophesying.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Years before, she imagined her future death, as if prophesying:

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

The little girl, who was only seven at the time, had learned to read from her uncle’s storybooks and been closer to him than any other member of the family because of her prophesying powers.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende