as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
a soothsayer predicted that I would meet the man of my dreams online, assuming of course that I became a subscriber to the Web site's dating service
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Whether on Instagram or CNN, analysts (professional and self-appointed) behave like modern-day soothsayers, peering at the tea leaves of polls, social media, video clips and the general zeitgeist to utter words of prophecy and, increasingly, doom.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
Fanon persists in the activist imagination as a kind of radical soothsayer, an intellectual who can speak authoritatively about our moment because of his identity as a Black man and colonial subject who personally experienced the barbarity of a colonizing power.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theater involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s first musical.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
And then there’s Bill Maher flying through the ether, telling us inflation is done — another wicked soothsayer denying the obvious: that inflation is a beast yet to be tamed.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2024
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
Fanon persists in the activist imagination as a kind of radical soothsayer, an intellectual who can speak authoritatively about our moment because of his identity as a Black man and colonial subject who personally experienced the barbarity of a colonizing power.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theater involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s first musical.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
And then there’s Bill Maher flying through the ether, telling us inflation is done — another wicked soothsayer denying the obvious: that inflation is a beast yet to be tamed.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soothsayer
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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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The witches act as dancers and backup singers as well as prophets.Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2024
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
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“Soothsayer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soothsayer. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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