sortilege

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Noun
  • Throughout history, dice have been used for many different things, including important decision-making or even divination, such as ancient Roman belief that gods controlled the outcomes of dice.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Astronauts could, in principle, descend into the treacherously dark and cold craters to look for themselves, but most of this water divining will be conducting by robots.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 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
  • If historical beat rates hold, that would rise to 19%, the forecasting firm said.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Aily enables real-time forecasting for demand sensing and inventory optimization, allowing brands to respond operationally as signals emerge — capturing opportunities rather than missing them.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 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 16 Apr. 2026.

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