prophetically

American  

[pruh-fet-ik-lee] / prəˈfɛt ɪk li /

adverb

1. in a way that seems or is prophetic.

2. in relation or reference to prophecy.

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Example Sentences

As the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine so prophetically and tragically warned, "Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too."

From Salon

In one of the series of videos he did with Converge over the past few years, Lewis spoke prophetically last April about what drove him to work on addressing gun violence.

From Seattle Times

Eight years later, in his famous farewell address, a frustrated and alarmed president called out "the military-industrial complex," prophetically warning of its anti-democratic nature and the disastrous rise of misplaced power that it represented.

From Salon

“Comic books, video games, interactive software — these are all areas where artists can create with great freedom and imagination,” he told Business Wire, prophetically, in 1993.

From New York Times

When Craig explains what the new device can do — spy on you, know what you like, spread disinformation — Harrigan says, prophetically, “All of us ought to be very frightened by this gizmo.”

From Washington Post