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Recent Examples of prophetess
The Christie’s red chalk drawing of the foot was likely done from a live model, with Michelangelo showing the elegance of the Libyan Sibyl prophetess through her dramatically arched foot.
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Anna Swartwood House,
The Conversation,
23 Feb. 2026
Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2024
The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
25 Jan. 2024
Hecuba, the queen, goes to the wily Odysseus; her daughter-in-law Andromache, Hector’s widow, to Achilles’ son, Pyrrhus; and her daughter Cassandra, a prophetess doomed never to be believed, to the victorious general Agamemnon.
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Daniel Mendelsohn,
The New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2021
Toren, with nearly 400 titles to her name and several awards for narration, can sound like prophetess of trees.
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Jenni Laidman,
chicagotribune.com,
7 May 2018
But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.
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Jérôme Tubiana,
Foreign Affairs,
31 July 2015
Anna Swartwood House,
The Conversation,
23 Feb. 2026
Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.
—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2024
The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
25 Jan. 2024
Hecuba, the queen, goes to the wily Odysseus; her daughter-in-law Andromache, Hector’s widow, to Achilles’ son, Pyrrhus; and her daughter Cassandra, a prophetess doomed never to be believed, to the victorious general Agamemnon.
—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
The New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2021
Toren, with nearly 400 titles to her name and several awards for narration, can sound like prophetess of trees.
—
Jenni Laidman,
chicagotribune.com,
7 May 2018
But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.
—
Jérôme Tubiana,
Foreign Affairs,
31 July 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophetess
Noun
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The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.
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Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
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Every now and again, Monica, as much savvy therapist as all-knowing seer, interrupts Jean’s first-person account to offer guidance.
Noun
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Ora Cogan makes songs the way diviners cast charms.
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While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.
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Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.
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The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.
Noun
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Warnock said in his sermon that the prophet Isaiah provides words of hope but also a road map on how to move forward.
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The most savvy prophet of this new reality may be Markiplier himself.
Noun
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Not everyone can labor in a cabin with the wisewoman of their choosing.
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Back in the ’90s, videos about computer chips and global warming serve as oracles.
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There’s a moment inside Nick Doyle’s new show at Perrotin when his AI oracle Ava stops feeling like a gimmick and starts sounding uncomfortably familiar.
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The first teaser for the film lays out that mission, with Gail speaking with a fortune teller who knows way too well the specifics of Gail’s situation and sets her on her path forward.
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Toombs is best known today as the face of fortune teller Madame Leota inside the crystal ball in the Haunted Mansion’s seance circle at Disneyland.
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“Prophetess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophetess. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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