prophesy

This is headline news today, but more than a century ago American writers began to foresee such a crisis, and to prophesy what might happen next.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

Only Chani manages to escape the trap of prophesy and bloodlines, of arranged marriage, designer babies and the dream of world domination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

One of their three unreleased songs Love In The City could almost be a prophesy of what befell them.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022

This gap apparently also applies to prophesy, as we see at the episode’s end: one last explicit tie to “Game of Thrones,” which was a broad-stroke retelling of “Game of Thrones.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Madame Olga charged $50 per prophecy, claiming that she could prophesy fluctuations in the commodities market. rack/wrack.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that an apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025

But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

But the sun no longer shines on their quaint German town, and Ellen prophesies that something is wrong.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

The town is best-known in Catholic tradition for three secret, apocalyptic prophesies said to be delivered to three children by an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917, when it was a poor village.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

Tom and Eb were sullen and resentful for days that their prophesies of an easy victory should so early have taken on a hollow ring.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

At the dawn of the new millennium, music critics prophesied that five young men living in New York City would cast the false gods of nu metal, rap-rock and boy bands out of heavy rotation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Low and behold, right before Tyler, the Creator’s set, a bright orange blimp reading “Marty Supreme” began circling Dodger Stadium — just as Chalamet prophesied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

This, he prophesied, would lead to an unbreakable coalition that could fundamentally reshape the nation’s politics for the next half-century.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2024

Dubois, 27, becomes a top dog in the glamour division, but 'Dynamite' is not a flash in the pan and has long been prophesied for heavyweight stardom.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024

General Sharpe can never find out who I’m prophesied to be.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Linn Nhyo Taryar's past has been anything but safe and secure, thanks to his prophesying profession.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

It is often called ritual theatre for its electrifying drama, featuring daring acts like fire-walking, diving into burning embers, chanting occult verses, and prophesying.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

Participants gasped and whispered to one another as they heard an April 2013 recording of Kim Clement, a late South African preacher, apparently prophesying Trump’s presidency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Years before, she imagined her future death, as if prophesying:

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

He was the sort of man who would become a British Israelite nowadays, and spend the rest of his life prophesying the end of the world by measuring the passages in the Great Pyramid.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White