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Recent Examples of prophetess
But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.
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Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2015
Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
Hecuba, the queen, goes to the wily Odysseus; her daughter-in-law Andromache, Hector’s widow, to Achilles’ son, Pyrrhus; and her daughter Cassandra, a prophetess doomed never to be believed, to the victorious general Agamemnon.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
The [prophetess Deborah], for example, accompanies an army into battle.
—Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2021
Toren, with nearly 400 titles to her name and several awards for narration, can sound like prophetess of trees.
—Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
Classical mythology brings us the tale of the Sibyl of Cumae, a prophetess who bargains with Apollo for endless life, and centuries later comes to yearn for death.
—Joshua Max Feldman, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
Florence Houteff, considered a prophetess by the Branch Davidians, predicted April 22, 1959, as the rollout date of the Book of Revelation’s fire and brimstone.
—Kimberly Winston, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2015
Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
Hecuba, the queen, goes to the wily Odysseus; her daughter-in-law Andromache, Hector’s widow, to Achilles’ son, Pyrrhus; and her daughter Cassandra, a prophetess doomed never to be believed, to the victorious general Agamemnon.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
The [prophetess Deborah], for example, accompanies an army into battle.
—Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2021
Toren, with nearly 400 titles to her name and several awards for narration, can sound like prophetess of trees.
—Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
Classical mythology brings us the tale of the Sibyl of Cumae, a prophetess who bargains with Apollo for endless life, and centuries later comes to yearn for death.
—Joshua Max Feldman, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
Florence Houteff, considered a prophetess by the Branch Davidians, predicted April 22, 1959, as the rollout date of the Book of Revelation’s fire and brimstone.
—Kimberly Winston, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophetess
Noun
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.—
Nancy Princenthal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2024
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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
14 Oct. 2020
Noun
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To find his way home, the lost seafarer Odysseus must travel to the underworld to receive a prophecy from the blind seer, Tiresias.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
21 Aug. 2024
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All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Rather than the typical market outlook, fraught with all the dangers of being a soothsayer, this outlook will endeavor to take a journey like Lewis Carroll’s Alice to find some reality in markets that can sometimes seem unreal or irrational.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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Wall Street’s soothsayers expect another year of double-digit gains after the S&P 500 posted back-to-back advances of over 20% in 2023 and 2024.—
Royce Branning,
Fortune,
30 Nov. 2024
Noun
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They are thought of not just as coaches but as gurus, prophets, avatars for particular ideas.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025
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But like so many great prophets before her, Ellen is not so well received in her time.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Perhaps only literary sci-fi oracles like him, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury could conceive of a future in which the past returns to both inform and challenge our understanding of reality.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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But other, less helpful oracles have the opposite effect.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Every year, Pop Culture Happy Hour tries to play fortune teller by predicting what will happen in the world of pop culture.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
1 Jan. 2025
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Another shot featured the model topless in the lotus position as a Japanese fortune teller looks down at her erotically.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Prophetess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophetess. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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