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horoscope

[hawr-uh-skohp, hor-] / ˈhɔr əˌskoʊp, ˈhɒr- /
NOUN
astrological forecast
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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

For most of my adult life, I have felt like that kind of “within” talk is fortune-cookie horoscope speak, signifying nothing.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 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

"I am a horse on my horoscope so I don't know if that has any correlation."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

Actually he had been interested in the horoscope for a spurious birth date but Mack had never mentioned it again and so Doc forgot it.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Henry Chen, born in 1990, the Year of the Horse, never took Chinese horoscopes too seriously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

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

The more individual-focused horoscopes came later, around 400 B.C.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023

Astrologers for centuries have referred to the movement and positions of planets and other celestial bodies to inform readings and horoscopes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

He cast horoscopes for the Duke of Wallenstein, as he had done for Rudolf II, and spent his final years in a Silesian town controlled by Wallenstein and called Sagan.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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