soothsay
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But, he added, the ability to soothsay where a young man is going to be five years from now requires the scout to dig even deeper.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 7, 2016
A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Thou must be wealthy and art bountiful, so it is worth while to soothsay for thee."
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate†, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
So much she said to Heriolf, but she had not ended her soothsay.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Not thankful: All the hand-wringing and apocalyptic soothsaying about how artificial intelligence is a Pandora’s box that will steal our jobs and ultimately spell our doom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
A Dutch ship’s doctor who met him in the 1750s reported that he had earned a reputation there for sagacity and soothsaying.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2018
At least this is definitive proof that The Post doesn’t pay me for soothsaying.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2017
What Mr. Donovan’s own extensive research about fortunetelling left him with was the feeling that predicting the future required developing certain powers, but not the kind that involve actual soothsaying.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2016
“Madame Ionesco, if a person—two persons to be precise—are not actually dead, but merely absent, would your soothsaying powers still enable you to send them a message?”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
