prophecies

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

Warren Buffett once called him a Cassandra—the mythological Trojan priestess whose grim prophecies were ignored.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

"If you keep looking at your age, you go back to these self-fulfilling prophecies," Peters says.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

The future exists now — the threat is here — just as it flickers in Paul’s hallucinogenic prophecies.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Those marketwomen who had counted their pats of butter after he brushed past their stands, Mrs. Lapham with her prophecies that he would end on the gallows, had not been so far wrong.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes