prophet

Example Sentences

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Its members had accepted his 17-year-old son, Mark, as their prophet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

One user shared a conversation with AI in which he suggested he might be a "prophet".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Hours earlier, AFP reporters met a man who introduced himself as a prophet, Stephen Benson Nundu.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

A philosopher, historian, songbird of grief and prophet, Didion foretold the city’s future with startling accuracy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

It was only in the second half of the seventeenth century that he was rescued from relative obscurity and hailed as the prophet of a new age.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton