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

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

That should give central bankers confidence that high prices are not becoming so embedded in the American psyche that they become a self-fulfilling prophesy as people ask for higher pay and change their spending patterns.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2022

The priest proceeded to interpret my mother’s prophesy, but I was too anxious about her well-being to pay any attention to what he was saying.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane