prophesy
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When we set out to make this film, No Choice, we hoped to imagine a plausible future — not to prophesy our present reality.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025
Only Chani manages to escape the trap of prophesy and bloodlines, of arranged marriage, designer babies and the dream of world domination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
One of their three unreleased songs Love In The City could almost be a prophesy of what befell them.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022
If that were to happen, inflation could become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Everyone was ready to give them advice on whom to see, what to say, or to prophesy the outcome of this Congress.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that an apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025
But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
But the sun no longer shines on their quaint German town, and Ellen prophesies that something is wrong.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
The town is best-known in Catholic tradition for three secret, apocalyptic prophesies said to be delivered to three children by an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917, when it was a poor village.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
Tom and Eb were sullen and resentful for days that their prophesies of an easy victory should so early have taken on a hollow ring.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
In 2019 she disclosed that she had been diagnosed with a whole-body syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos, that prophesied a lifetime of medical trouble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
"It was prophesied that the stallion will ride to the ends of the earth," she said.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Linn Nhyo Taryar's past has been anything but safe and secure, thanks to his prophesying profession.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
It is often called ritual theatre for its electrifying drama, featuring daring acts like fire-walking, diving into burning embers, chanting occult verses, and prophesying.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
Years before, she imagined her future death, as if prophesying:
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
It was the very concept of making original content, prophesying the deals now common at streaming platforms like Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
When the Oracle awoke after one of her wild, prophesying nights, she probably had no memory of the things she’d said.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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