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Soon after, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, published the first book on tarot divination and created a deck explicitly designed for fortune-telling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026 -
For me, the most striking detail is the clear base, inspired by scrying, a form of divination involving crystal balls.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2026
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Yet another closed the gap between doomsday soothsaying, beautiful love songs, the buzzing of broken refrigerators, and the august majesty of whales.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
16 Dec. 2025
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As Pete says, juries almost literally live on another planet, being sequestered from the likes of us and our soothsaying.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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The independent, nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which has a sterling decades-long record of election forecasting, said the most probable outcome is a wash.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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When the system requires real-time tax forecasting, surprises in April should not surprise us.—
Sakinah Tillman,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Feb. 2026
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The rule of thumb is that if a party sees a mass exodus of its members in Congress, that’s a bad augury.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
5 Sep. 2025
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Dream books offered augury, poetry, and purpose—a kind of secular scripture for the numbers game.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Sortilege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sortilege. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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