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prophecies

NOUN

prediction

Synonyms

STRONGEST

apocalypse prognostication revelation

STRONG

augury cast divination forecast foretelling oracle presage prevision prognosis soothsaying vision

WEAK

second sight

Example Sentences

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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

"Family bonds, ancient prophecies, and the sacred line of succession will be tested in a dangerous campaign for power. Who will survive? Who will rise?"

From BBC • Feb. 18, 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

I was a fresh-faced high school senior, living out the prime of my teenage youth in an increasingly progressive world where fundamentalist doomsday prophecies were lobbed around in jest.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

I had been longer in Karhide now than the Investigators had, and I doubted that there was anything to the stories of Foretellers and their prophecies.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin