soothsaying

Example Sentences

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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

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

Honestly, there was so much loudmouthed soothsaying that it was hard to tell who was saying what.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 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