soothsaying
Americannoun
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the practice or art of foretelling events.
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a prediction or prophecy.
Etymology
Origin of soothsaying
Example Sentences
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Not thankful: All the hand-wringing and apocalyptic soothsaying about how artificial intelligence is a Pandora’s box that will steal our jobs and ultimately spell our doom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
At least this is definitive proof that The Post doesn’t pay me for soothsaying.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2017
They’re like Tom Riddle’s diary of academic soothsaying.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2016
What Mr. Donovan’s own extensive research about fortunetelling left him with was the feeling that predicting the future required developing certain powers, but not the kind that involve actual soothsaying.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2016
Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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