as in predicts
to tell of or describe beforehand
holy men were prophesying the coming of a new messiah
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Recent Examples of prophesies
Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother.
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Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Sugar Mountain Ski Resort hosts an Oktoberfest the weekend of October 11 to 12 this year, and the annual Woolly Warm Festival, which has a caterpillar race that prophesies the length of winter, runs October 18 and 19.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Sugar Mountain Ski Resort hosts an Oktoberfest the weekend of October 11 to 12 this year, and the annual Woolly Warm Festival, which has a caterpillar race that prophesies the length of winter, runs October 18 and 19.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophesies
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Swain predicts that within a decade, the total size of the three classes of directs will be attracting the same annual volume of new funds as traditional PE commands today.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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The firm predicts that the music and podcast streamer can raise subscription prices over the next few months, which should help lift shares.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Democrats would then file a lawsuit, and the case winds up before the Supreme Court, which somehow reads the Twenty-second Amendment differently than it has been widely understood?—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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And sometimes, that reads even bigger than the numbers.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Prophesies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophesies. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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