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“He’s a prophet-like figure,” said Pu Zhiqiang, a human rights lawyer based in Beijing who was disbarred because of his own advocacy.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

It follows a prophet-like figure who returns to a rundown village, but it’s all about the spell that the crisply desolate images exert.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2020

Who doubts the daylight when he sees afar The fading lamp of some night-weary star, Which prophet-like, has heard amid the dark The first faint prelude of the nested lark?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

Abraham stands in the centre of the group, a fine, prophet-like, "green old man," with a mild decision in his eye, from which there is evidently no appeal.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

He seemed to be sunk in stern, prophet-like meditation.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)