prophesy
Example Sentences
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This is headline news today, but more than a century ago American writers began to foresee such a crisis, and to prophesy what might happen next.
From Salon • May 17, 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
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
Madame Olga charged $50 per prophecy, claiming that she could prophesy fluctuations in the commodities market. rack/wrack.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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