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noun

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Recent Examples of fortune-telling
Adjective
Thoughts of all the beautiful, mundane, familiar things that make life so sweet had turned sour in my ominous fortune-telling. Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortune-telling
Noun
  • Soon after, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, published the first book on tarot divination and created a deck explicitly designed for fortune-telling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For me, the most striking detail is the clear base, inspired by scrying, a form of divination involving crystal balls.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Yet another closed the gap between doomsday soothsaying, beautiful love songs, the buzzing of broken refrigerators, and the august majesty of whales.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
  • As Pete says, juries almost literally live on another planet, being sequestered from the likes of us and our soothsaying.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The technology includes creative analysis for scripts and projects, packaging suggestions, as well as market forecasting about how the film will do commercially.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The hands-on, immersive experience assisted in honing space weather forecasting activities, not only for Artemis 2 but also the future.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • And the title Illumination is adapting, with some other references pulled here and there from throughout franchise history, is among his most creative and wondrous adventures.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Seders take participants through the wondrous liberation of our ancestors from Egyptian bondage, while sharing the relevance and beauty of the age-old festival in our modern lives.
    Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the wake of Friday’s abysmal jobs report , investors are scrambling to understand whether the loss of 92,000 jobs in February was a blip or a foretelling of more payroll cuts to come as t he adoption of AI by corporations increases .
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • With the 2025 college football season on the horizon, months of previewing and predicting soon will be in the rearview mirror.
    Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025

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“Fortune-telling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortune-telling. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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