horoscope
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In the course of his travels, he heard John Calvin speak, had his horoscope read by Nostradamus and witnessed the French dauphin toss a small dog out of a high window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
But the country's most popular horoscope forecasting the Buddhist new year starting in early 2026, touted by street vendors nationwide in recent days, contains clashing portents.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Many critics noted that their work suffered from selection bias and determinism; a 1991 Newsweek article described it as “an elaborate historical horoscope that will never withstand scholarly scrutiny.”
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025
Diana says astrologers believe there's a "horoscope wheel" that changes according to people's year of birth, and Saturn takes "28, 29 years to go round this circle" and end up in the same spot again.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024
“I think you looked at the moon too much out there. Soon you're going to start living by your horoscope, just like your mother.”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
Some studies have linked belief in horoscopes and zodiac signs to "confirmation bias", the tendency to believe or remember information that aligns with our pre-existing beliefs, and interpret it selectively to support them.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
In some ways, he’s the reason I never took Chinese horoscopes that seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
In another trial, when given a photograph of a stocked bookshelf, both chatbots offered detailed descriptions of the hypothetical owner’s supposed character and interests that were almost like AI-generated horoscopes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
By 1700, astrological consultation for personal destinies and the use of personal horoscopes “pretty much disappeared from Europe … and was no longer taken seriously by educated people,” Campion says.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023
Galileo had to cast two horoscopes, work out which seemed better to fit the life of Ferdinand so far, thus decide his date of birth and so predict his future.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Power Suffix: -scope
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