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prophetesses

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plural of prophetess

as in sibyls

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Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026

Definition of seers

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Or so claim these prophets of inverted doom who conjure a past that never was, as shaped by the fractured lens of the present.

— David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of prophets

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Pollsters, the modern equivalent of soothsayers, are increasingly wrong.

— Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
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.

— Vulture Editors, Vulture, 10 June 2026

Definition of soothsayers

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All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
The loudest of those skeptics still get treated as oracles, even as the downside bets behind them quietly decay toward nothing.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of oracles

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This is where the city stages its daily open-air show — street artists sketching portraits, fortune-tellers shuffling cards and musicians playing for appreciative crowds.

— Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
Street artists and fortune-tellers set up here daily, creating a scene that feels spontaneous every time.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026

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