prophet

Example Sentences

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The Beatle most associated with sitars and yoga poses was the last one anyone would expect to become a business prophet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Hours earlier, AFP reporters met a man who introduced himself as a prophet, Stephen Benson Nundu.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

You can’t be a prophet in your own land.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2025

What Peck found wasn’t a prophet or a symbol but a man full of contradictions: a writer wrestling with class, illness and empire, trying to fuse politics and art before his own time ran out.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

The passage described the great prophet Mormon, a fact I’d found confusing.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover