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

Frank Bruni: That is a bit of unimpeachable soothsaying, Gail.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017

They’re like Tom Riddle’s diary of academic soothsaying.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2016

“Madame Ionesco, if a person—two persons to be precise—are not actually dead, but merely absent, would your soothsaying powers still enable you to send them a message?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood