prophecy
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The prophecy states that they’ll acquire the powers of “Break” – to dismantle or undo something – and “Seal” to contain, reconstruct or suppress something.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
One knock-on effect might be that farmers plant less for fear of losing crops to a strong El Niño, making its impact on ag commodity prices a self-fulfilling prophecy, Marex says.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
The Netherlands would become the fourth of four predicted winners to fulfil Klement's statistical prophecy if they lift the trophy in July.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
They worry that when people expect much higher prices in the future, they will accelerate their spending and demand higher wages, making inflation a self-fulfilling prophecy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
It was Snape who had overheard the prophecy.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Speech-act theory explains why predictions like these can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Indeed, in both cases, followers of the dead prophets are constantly finding new meaning in old prophecies.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
Forgive me, but I have seen and heard prophecies emanating from what must be the same Doomsday Machine before.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
"If you keep looking at your age, you go back to these self-fulfilling prophecies," Peters says.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Those marketwomen who had counted their pats of butter after he brushed past their stands, Mrs. Lapham with her prophecies that he would end on the gallows, had not been so far wrong.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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