as in predictions
a declaration that something will happen in the future
took the soothsayings published in the tabloids with a grain of salt
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There was a new idea — proposed and developed in the 1980s — known as cosmological inflation, that made a slew of predictions that contrasted with those that arose from the idea of a singularity at the start of the hot Big Bang.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Historical predictions of a rapture have not yet come to pass, despite recurring every few years.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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In the latest set of USDA forecasts for 2025/26, projections for world production and mill use increased.—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Sep. 2025
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That builds on 2024’s 126 million admissions and Cinepoint forecasts of Indonesian films reaching 100 million admissions annually by 2026, with overall growth projected at 10% per year.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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But at least some of that conflict comes from false assumptions, and some of it comes from turning their preconceptions into self-fulfilling prophecies.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Scientific experiments can become self-fulfilling prophecies.—
Sara Giordano,
The Conversation,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Soothsayings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soothsayings. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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