sortilege

Definition of sortilegenext

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Noun
  • The second part centers on tarot as a tool of divination and creative inspiration, beginning with the iconic 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck and moving on to art works from the twentieth century into the present day.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Diamond Seas presents plunderphonics as a form of divination, akin to spirit photography or automatic writing.
    Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Practice divining with an obsidian mirror.
    Sandra Cisneros, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Astronauts could, in principle, descend into the treacherously dark and cold craters to look for themselves, but most of this water divining will be conducting by robots.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This is the mix of soothsaying and realism that entrepreneurs like Musk deploy to raise money for their companies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Yet another closed the gap between doomsday soothsaying, beautiful love songs, the buzzing of broken refrigerators, and the august majesty of whales.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • For the most recent earnings season, these forecasting fruit flies buzzed around modeling 12% earnings growth for the quarter.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • This is because temperature measurements used in weather forecasting are taken in the shade and are not exposed to direct sunlight.
    Brian Bossak, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • In the wake of Friday’s abysmal jobs report , investors are scrambling to understand whether the loss of 92,000 jobs in February was a blip or a foretelling of more payroll cuts to come as t he adoption of AI by corporations increases .
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But the most promising augury for season two is that Widow’s Bay is old-school monster-of-the-week episodic television.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • The rule of thumb is that if a party sees a mass exodus of its members in Congress, that’s a bad augury.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Sortilege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sortilege. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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