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adj.telling of the future

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The succeeding 17 years have certainly proven that prophetic.

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In 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, 2021TIME

Eight 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, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

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.

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There was not one of us who did not consider this meteoric display prophetic.

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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

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