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soothsaying

[sooth-sey-ing] / ˈsuθˌseɪ ɪŋ /


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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

He was also a savvy entrepreneur and fabulist who, despite being illiterate and shunned by the Catholic Church, carved out a life soothsaying and healing ailing neighbors.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2022

At least this is definitive proof that The Post doesn’t pay me for soothsaying.

From Washington Post Dec. 22, 2017

They’re like Tom Riddle’s diary of academic soothsaying.

From Slate Dec. 22, 2016

Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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