fortune-telling
Example Sentences
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In Rye: Playing a boy named Josh in the movie “Big,” Tom Hanks consults Zoltar, a fortune-telling machine at Playland Amusement Park.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Myanmar has a rich culture of fortune-telling, and many believe the future can be discerned by mystics.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
My grandfather was a believer in feng shui and fortune-telling, and he had my dad’s reading done at birth.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
For example, the Tarot deck, originally for competitive card games, later morphed into a tool for fortune-telling.
From National Geographic • Nov. 3, 2023
Her voice had gotten raspy toward the end of her fortune-telling and she breathed like she’d been carrying something heavy.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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