soothsaying

Example Sentences

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A Dutch ship’s doctor who met him in the 1750s reported that he had earned a reputation there for sagacity and soothsaying.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018

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

Much as the global financial crisis tripped up economists in 2008, so too has the presidential campaign made a mockery of political soothsaying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2016

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