sortilege

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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The technology includes creative analysis for scripts and projects, packaging suggestions, as well as market forecasting about how the film will do commercially.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The hands-on, immersive experience assisted in honing space weather forecasting activities, not only for Artemis 2 but also the future.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the wake of Friday’s abysmal jobs report , investors are scrambling to understand whether the loss of 92,000 jobs in February was a blip or a foretelling of more payroll cuts to come as t he adoption of AI by corporations increases .
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 31 Mar. 2026.

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