soothsay
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But, he added, the ability to soothsay where a young man is going to be five years from now requires the scout to dig even deeper.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 7, 2016
A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Thou must be wealthy and art bountiful, so it is worth while to soothsay for thee."
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
Beyond forests, beyond mountains, lived in the Crimea a certain kind woman named Lala, who could soothsay.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
“Thou must be wealthy and art bountiful, so it is worth while to soothsay for thee.”
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Alexander Glovatski
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
“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
