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Recent Examples of prophetess
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.
—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
The [prophetess Deborah], for example, accompanies an army into battle.
—Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 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
Florence Houteff, considered a prophetess by the Branch Davidians, predicted April 22, 1959, as the rollout date of the Book of Revelation’s fire and brimstone.
—Kimberly Winston, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.
—Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2015
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
The [prophetess Deborah], for example, accompanies an army into battle.
—Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 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
Florence Houteff, considered a prophetess by the Branch Davidians, predicted April 22, 1959, as the rollout date of the Book of Revelation’s fire and brimstone.
—Kimberly Winston, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
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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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.—
Nancy Princenthal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2024
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It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 May 2021
Noun
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The book spans more than six decades and charts the rise of Malone, 84, from an engineering background to his current status as billionaire and media industry seer.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
29 Aug. 2025
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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But the prevalence of the debate proves the manga’s tight grip on the popular imagination – amplified by both soothsayers across Asia and social media – especially in seismically active Japan, where the constant threat of an earthquake or tsunami looms large in the popular imagination.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Aug. 2025
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Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next.—
Boone Ashworth,
Wired News,
18 July 2025
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Just four years after graduating, Aschenbrenner is holding private discussions with tech CEOs, investors, and policymakers who treat him as a kind of prophet of the AI age.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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He was named one of the church's top governing bodies in 1984, and became its leader and prophet in 2018, at the age of 93.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Not everyone can labor in a cabin with the wisewoman of their choosing.—
Jennifer Block,
Longreads,
10 Mar. 2020
Noun
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In fact, at the time, Costner was being warned by no less an oracle than Steven Spielberg.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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Like any good oracle, Le Bon knows precisely what the future holds.—
Rumaan Alam,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Nearly a third of U.S. adults consult astrology, tarot cards or fortune tellers at least once a year, though the portion of Americans who believe in astrology doesn't appear to have changed much in recent years, according to research from the Pew Research Center.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Hall’s clairvoyant was not your typical fortune teller.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Prophetess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophetess. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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