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The succeeding 17 years have certainly proven that prophetic.
THE ENDGAME IN AFGHANISTAN: DARKER CLOUDS GATHERTRACY MORANJULY 28, 2021OZYIn a prophetic assignment of acronyms, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, which proposes over $579 billion in new spending on hard projects like roads and bridges, has the unfortunate shorthand of BIF—pronounced biff, which rhymes with whiff.
TOMORROW’S INFRASTRUCTURE VOTE IFFY, AT BESTPHILIP ELLIOTTJULY 20, 2021TIMEEight years later, he sounds prophetic — USC is its own kind of Dunk City.
THE COACH WHO BUILT ‘DUNK CITY’ IS WINNING WITH IT AT USCJAKE LOURIMMARCH 9, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTShortly after Lubomir Kavalek was named an international grandmaster of chess in 1965, he was aboard a train en route to Prague when a countryman, the celebrated Czech player Karel Opocensky, made an observation that proved prophetic.
LUBOMIR KAVALEK, INTERNATIONAL CHESS GRANDMASTER, DIES AT 77EMILY LANGERJANUARY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAround 400 BCE, Democritus declared that the cosmos is “in reality only atoms and the void,” a prophetic statement if ever there was one.
THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSEMICHAEL MOYEROCTOBER 22, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThe founders considered such structures and rejected them outright, in arguments that read as prophetic today.
THE DEFINITIVE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTEREZRA KLEINOCTOBER 1, 2020VOXWhile Neil is looking more prophetic, for the moment, for picking the Los Angeles team that he did, the Hot Takedown crew hasn’t lost faith in LeBron James quite yet.
THE SUMMER OF PLAYOFFSSARAH SHACHATAUGUST 18, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThere was not one of us who did not consider this meteoric display prophetic.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSMy prophetic soul reveals to me that a year makes a difference sometimes.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERCould all the wise men of Rome have explained to Julius Caesar the following dispatch, if given in prophetic vision?
GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARDWORDS RELATED TO PROPHETIC
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.