prophesied

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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

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

From BBC • May 16, 2024

The arc of the moral universe is long, Martin Luther King Jr., prophesied so many years ago, but it bends toward justice.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

I had noticed other little evidences of the envy and of the jealousy which Mr. Muhammad had prophesied.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey