soothsaying
Example Sentences
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Not thankful: All the hand-wringing and apocalyptic soothsaying about how artificial intelligence is a Pandora’s box that will steal our jobs and ultimately spell our doom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
At least this is definitive proof that The Post doesn’t pay me for soothsaying.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2017
Honestly, there was so much loudmouthed soothsaying that it was hard to tell who was saying what.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
More than 65,000 copies have sold since then—which suggests the slender work’s declinist soothsaying continues to touch a nerve.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2015
Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.