prophesy

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

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022

Coming from a top central bank official, a prediction that the economy is headed for tough times might become a self-fulfilling prophesy, shattering already fragile confidence.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

As for pronunciation, prophecy ends in a “see,” prophesy in a “sigh.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that 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

The town is best-known in Catholic tradition for three secret, apocalyptic prophesies said to be delivered to three children by an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917, when it was a poor village.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 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

According to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Davis frequently had to stop and correct the behavior of Lewis, who at one point prophesied the end of the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

I had noticed other little evidences of the envy and of the jealousy which Mr. Muhammad had prophesied.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

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

Participants gasped and whispered to one another as they heard an April 2013 recording of Kim Clement, a late South African preacher, apparently prophesying Trump’s presidency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Near the turn of the century, the messianic Ghost Dance spread rapidly among the tribes of the West, prophesying the return of the dead and the end of settler dominion.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

He began striding up and down again, praying and prophesying, with his words sometimes shifting to an unknown, yet strangely powerful, tongue.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer