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Recent Examples of prophetess
But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.
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Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2015
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
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
Classical mythology brings us the tale of the Sibyl of Cumae, a prophetess who bargains with Apollo for endless life, and centuries later comes to yearn for death.
—Joshua Max Feldman, New York Times, 9 Mar. 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
Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2015
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
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
Classical mythology brings us the tale of the Sibyl of Cumae, a prophetess who bargains with Apollo for endless life, and centuries later comes to yearn for death.
—Joshua Max Feldman, New York Times, 9 Mar. 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
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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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
14 Oct. 2020
Noun
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But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.—
John Kaag,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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In South Africa, the teen-age seer Nongqawuse foretold that the European settlers would be swept into the sea and a golden age would dawn—if only her people slaughtered their cattle and burned their crops.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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After a soothsayer predicts that theater's future combines singing, drama and dancing, the duo begins to write the first-ever musical.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
6 June 2025
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Mamet emphasizes the vernacular like a theatrical soothsayer while Zahler visualizes violence to clarify circumstance and character.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 May 2025
Noun
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For someone who agrees with his super-restrictive immigration policy ideas, Stein is a kind of prophet whose decades of advocacy as president of the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are finally bearing fruit in president Trump's second term.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
23 June 2025
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Shakespeare lives in the sky, whereas Joyce was his prophet on earth who Willy spent a lot more time reading and thinking about.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Noun
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To ask for advice is to reach for a person whose vision exceeds yours, for reasons supernatural (oracles, mediums), professional (doctors, lawyers), or pastoral (parents, friends).—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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When conditions are met (e.g., delivery confirmed via oracle or IoT sensor), payment flows instantly.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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There are also plans for tarot card games, and special visits from a fortune teller.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
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One dresses like a beatnik gymnast; the other like a Romanian fortune teller.—
Jeff Weiss,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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“Prophetess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophetess. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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