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Recent Examples of fortune-telling
Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
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
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Beneath the flat surface of the back seat hid the wondrous fold-up bench seats that, to my childhood mind, were a marvel of ingenuity.—
Judith Garrison,
AJC.com,
16 June 2026
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This year, City Parks Foundation SummerStage celebrates its landmark fortieth anniversary by bringing a wide and wondrous array of free shows to more than a dozen parks across the five boroughs, including Central Park.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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The second part centers on tarot as a tool of divination and creative inspiration, beginning with the iconic 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck and moving on to art works from the twentieth century into the present day.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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Diamond Seas presents plunderphonics as a form of divination, akin to spirit photography or automatic writing.—
Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
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This is the mix of soothsaying and realism that entrepreneurs like Musk deploy to raise money for their companies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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The National Weather Service issued an extreme-heat watch at the Grand Canyon for midday Monday through Tuesday, forecasting temperatures that could exceed 110 degrees at the low-elevation Phantom Ranch.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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Preparing for what comes after AGI, the authors write, will take forecasting and benchmarking and continuous monitoring, plus the ability to turn that work into policy quickly, across labs and governments and the research community at the same time.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Practice divining with an obsidian mirror.—
Sandra Cisneros,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Astronauts could, in principle, descend into the treacherously dark and cold craters to look for themselves, but most of this water divining will be conducting by robots.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2026
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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
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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 24 Jun. 2026.
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