Thesaurus results for SOOTHSAYERS

soothsayers

noun

plural of soothsayer

as in diviners

one who predicts future events or developments a soothsayer predicted that I would meet the man of my dreams online, assuming of course that I became a subscriber to the Web site's dating service

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Recent Examples of soothsayers The pricing of the iPhone Duo and Apple's other new devices was reasonable and below what many tech soothsayers had predicted. — Mike Snider, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 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 Just beyond the respectable edges of Paris, among the soothsayers and strongmen, works Suzanne (Anaïs Demoustier). — Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 May 2026 Disney+ is going back to the soothsayers in pursuit of greater fortune. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of diviners

Noun

Oracles, prophets and practices of divination offered guidance from inscrutable or enigmatic sources when ordinary human judgment reached its limits.

— Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
This overarching label encompassed Anabaptists, Baptists, Brownists, Levelers, Antinomians, Presbyterians, Ranters and many of the highly individual prophets and seers of 1640s Britain.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of prophets

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Light showers will move into the Charlotte area early Saturday, then transition to a 90% chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms later in the day, forecasters say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2026
On the heels of a miserably sticky summer, an unusually long October heat wave is set to arrive, according to forecasters.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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