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prophetically

[pruh-fet-ik-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way that seems or is prophetic.

  2. in relation or reference to prophecy.



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As Dickens prophetically reminds us, ours is hardly the first age of wisdom and of foolishness, the first epoch of belief and of incredulity.

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Poetically and almost prophetically, the post said, “Malibu is on fire and the animals have been driven down from the hills to the shore.”

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“The choices we make will impact California and the country for easily the next 10 to 20 years,” Spencer wrote prophetically in a 1997 open letter to GOP leaders.

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Harrison had already written about Klein, the break-up and its aftermath in his song Beware of the Darkness, from his hugely successful and critically acclaimed first solo album, the prophetically titled All Things Must Pass.

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Fridman smoothly and somewhat prophetically replied, “The night is still young.”

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