as in to predict
to tell of or describe beforehand
holy men were prophesying the coming of a new messiah
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Recent Examples of prophesy
According to Simpsons scribe Mike Scully, there wasn’t any deliberate prophesying going on in the writers room back then.
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Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Ministers, priests, and laypeople embraced this reinvention, as popular practices such as healings, prophesying, speaking in tongues, and performing miracles became hallmarks of a new era of Catholicism.
—Chayenne Polimédio, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2019
Ezekiel did his prophesying from exile before and after the destruction of the First Temple in the Babylonian conquest of 586 B.C.E., another defining cataclysm in Jewish history.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
As the rebel yell famously prophesied: Give us more, more, more nominees.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
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Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Ministers, priests, and laypeople embraced this reinvention, as popular practices such as healings, prophesying, speaking in tongues, and performing miracles became hallmarks of a new era of Catholicism.
—Chayenne Polimédio, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2019
Ezekiel did his prophesying from exile before and after the destruction of the First Temple in the Babylonian conquest of 586 B.C.E., another defining cataclysm in Jewish history.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
As the rebel yell famously prophesied: Give us more, more, more nominees.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophesy
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Something like our turbulence prediction module might someday be inserted into bigger climate models that can do better at predicting things like hurricanes.—
Steve Nadis,
Wired News,
1 June 2025
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Spinrad visited Southern California in late May and was taken aback by the number of people raising concern over the agency’s ability to continue predicting atmospheric river events, with all of their implications on public safety, reservoir operations and hydro power.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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What great fun to read about Monty and Rose, Searocket and Imani, Sage, Uncle Larry, Pepper and Blaze, just to name a few, and actually see photos of them, courtesy of skilled photojournalists.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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The share who said students should learn to read in kindergarten increased to 80 percent from 31 percent.—
Claire Cain Miller,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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“Prophesy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophesy. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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