prophesy
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict.
have prophesied
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present perfectof prophesy.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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As the price of Bitcoin has crashed more than $40,000 in the past year, at times down more than 70 percent from its peak value, some have prophesied the death of crypto.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
Its author, William Gibson, is our Nostradamus: His novels have prophesied reality television, viral marketing and nanotechnology.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2019
Delgado is even more doubtful that we will soon transcend our biology entirely, as the artificial-intelligence researcher Ray Kurzweil and others have prophesied.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2017
But if it was a movie about a marriage which brought the two together, it was another, a decade later, which may have prophesied the relationship's end.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2016
Strangest of all is it that he should have managed to be returned as an M.P. We should have been the last to have prophesied for Miall such a career.
From The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
