- plural of prophecy.
prophecies
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"We need to scrutinise these companies much more or we are in danger of self-fulfilling prophecies," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Forgive me, but I have seen and heard prophecies emanating from what must be the same Doomsday Machine before.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Warren Buffett once called him a Cassandra—the mythological Trojan priestess whose grim prophecies were ignored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
One sign of the fictional nature of this line of thinking is the way prophecies of the end of the world are routinely, in Kermode’s words, “disconfirmed without being discredited.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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