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Shortly 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 POST
Around 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 MAGAZINE
The founders considered such structures and rejected them outright, in arguments that read as prophetic today.
THE DEFINITIVE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTEREZRA KLEINOCTOBER 1, 2020VOX
While 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, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
There was not one of us who did not consider this meteoric display prophetic.
My prophetic soul reveals to me that a year makes a difference sometimes.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATER
Could all the wise men of Rome have explained to Julius Caesar the following dispatch, if given in prophetic vision?
GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARD
No less a genius, surely, the prophetic pines whisper to the listening mother!
THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRESWALTER PRICHARD EATON
It lasted very long, and the sailor began to fear that his words had been prophetic.
ERIC, OR LITTLE BY LITTLEFREDERIC W. FARRAR
The whistle shrieked ahead for the Gap and she nerved herself with a prophetic sense of vague trouble at hand.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINEJOHN FOX, JR.
WORDS RELATED TO PROPHETIC
- aggravating
- agitating
- alarming
- annoying
- bothersome
- burdensome
- consequential
- creepy
- depressing
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discomforting
- discommoding
- disconcerting
- discouraging
- dismaying
- distressing
- embarrassing
- foreboding
- frightening
- gloomy
- harassing
- hard
- impeding
- inconvenient
- irksome
- irritating
- laborious
- ominous
- onerous
- painful
- perplexing
- perturbing
- pessimistic
- prophetic
- provoking
- severe
- sinister
- startling
- threatening
- tiresome
- toilsome
- troublesome
- troubling
- trying
- uncertain
- unpleasant
- unsettling
- upsetting
- vexing
- wearisome
- worrisome
- worrying
- a priori
- as a matter of course
- assertive
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- axiomatic
- by fiat
- by natural law
- by nature
- canonical
- categorical
- deducible
- deductive
- derivable
- doctrinaire
- doctrinal
- eternal
- excathedra
- formal
- imperative
- inevitable
- on faith
- oracular
- orthodox
- peremptory
- positive
- pragmatic
- prophetic
- reasoned
- systematic
- theoretical
- unchangeable
- unerring
- unqualified
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