soothsaying

Example Sentences

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Not thankful: All the hand-wringing and apocalyptic soothsaying about how artificial intelligence is a Pandora’s box that will steal our jobs and ultimately spell our doom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Kathryn Hunter is downright otherworldly as all three of the shape-shifting, soothsaying weird sisters.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

At least this is definitive proof that The Post doesn’t pay me for soothsaying.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2017

This soothsaying language extended beyond just media outlets.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2016

Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos