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noun

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verb

present participle of prophesy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophesying
Verb
  • This simulation helps in predicting potential impacts and unforeseen outcomes that may arise from format adjustments.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile Chinese oil companies are predicting peak oil demand as widespread electric vehicle usage in the nation is replacing gasoline guzzlers.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • McKinley’s belief in the home market’s reliability thus became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Aroop Mukharji, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Analysts say that a gloomier economic outlook can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as businesses and consumers prepare for potential turbulence ahead.
    J.J. McCorvey, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Keep reading for the formulas loved by hairstylists and editors alike.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But the vulgarity of reading the dress as truthful or not about the body inside was astounding.
    Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The bitcoin price has flat-lined through March, stuck at around $85,000 per bitcoin, despite a huge, prescient bitcoin price prediction setting the market alight.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Brain Surgeons Have Some Thoughts Any early predictions for Season 3?
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Rylance as Cromwell winces at the spectacle, a premonition of his own future.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
  • So maybe the first half was more an aberration than a premonition.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Financial technology provides wondrous convenience to you.
    William Baldwin, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • As with several recent exhibits drawn from Wadsworth collections, the individual items have their own innate power, but that wondrous artistic aura is magnified a thousandfold by the smart curatorial and presentational style that brings these wildly varied works together.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
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