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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
Noun
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Alex Wei, an entrepreneur who moved to Liangzhu in 2025, is developing an AI app based on traditional Chinese divination tools.—
Elaine Yu,
CNBC,
2 Jan. 2026
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During production at Malvern Manor, every encounter was captured live using a blend of modern and time-honored ghost-hunting methods—alongside various divination techniques.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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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
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As Pete says, juries almost literally live on another planet, being sequestered from the likes of us and our soothsaying.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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That makes forecasting and early adjustment even more critical.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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These areas include inventory tracking and inventory demand forecasting.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
jsonline.com,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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On the flip side, the album also alludes to the wondrous, even frightening emotional epiphanies that come with the realisation that one’s life has started to take a different direction than planned.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
28 Jan. 2026
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Among them is the wondrous Grace Jones as May Day, the villain Max Zorin’s (Christopher Walken) henchwoman and lover (and an absolute fashion icon, to boot).—
Sezin Devi Koehler,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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 1 Feb. 2026.
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