prophesied

Example Sentences

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When she was little, a neighbor heard her singing along to the radio and prophesied to Carol’s mother: “Someday she’ll be famous.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

This, he prophesied, would lead to an unbreakable coalition that could fundamentally reshape the nation’s politics for the next half-century.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2024

That’s because Walz is a new-school dad, essentially the type that Dinnerstein prophesied.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

“This guy is going to be champion of the world someday,” Egan prophesied in 2006.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

Here we are more than a quarter-century after the prophesied date and more than a half-century after the prediction, and we can check to see what happened.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker