as in predicting
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as in prophesy
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as in reading
to tell of or describe beforehand
holy men were prophesying the coming of a new messiah
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophesying
Verb
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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
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Hallucinations taken as prophecy, destabilized on a middling journey to outpace, to open-chase, to claim supremacy, to reign indefinitely, haste and paste control altering deletion, unstable desire remains undefeated.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The groundhog made his prediction on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and delivered his meteorological prophecy in Groundhogese.—
Julia Gomez,
USA TODAY,
2 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Keep reading for the formulas loved by hairstylists and editors alike.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
31 Dec. 2024
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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
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Why Solar Cycle 25 is so special Solar Cycle 25 has outperformed predictions and explains why auroras have been seen farther from the Arctic and Antarctic circles.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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According to the prediction: Dallas Cowboys RB Raheem Mostert The Cowboys are another team with cap issues, and Jerry Jones' team hasn't been interested in spending much in recent offseasons.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The movie’s terrifying dénouement emerges in another seven-minute shot, in which hints and premonitions are transformed into passions and horrors and in which landscape—and, as per the title, a seascape—appear not simply as backdrops but as dramatic and intellectual engines of the story.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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Final Destination 5 begins with Sam Lawton (Nicholas D'Agosto) saving his co-worker's lives (and ruining their work retreat) after having a premonition about a bridge collapse.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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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And even though the creative inspiration for these sequences seems to come, at least in part, from Michel Gondry’s wondrous direction in that film, Mark’s memories aren’t being erased like Joel Barish’s; quite the opposite, as his Innie life is being added to his Outie’s.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Prophesying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophesying. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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