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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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Throughout history, dice have been used for many different things, including important decision-making or even divination, such as ancient Roman belief that gods controlled the outcomes of dice.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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Soon after, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, published the first book on tarot divination and created a deck explicitly designed for fortune-telling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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If historical beat rates hold, that would rise to 19%, the forecasting firm said.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
13 Apr. 2026
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Aily enables real-time forecasting for demand sensing and inventory optimization, allowing brands to respond operationally as signals emerge — capturing opportunities rather than missing them.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
Adjective
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The world is more interesting — more engaging but also more wondrous — when thought and care for aesthetics is built into even the most mundane tasks and objects.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Blessed with a wondrous, full-bodied tenor that easily rose through two full octaves of falsetto, Nascimento sings primarily in his native Portuguese but speaks volumes even to those who, like me, can’t speak the language.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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 14 Apr. 2026.
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