noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
self-fulfilling prophecy
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It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy : expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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This refrain is a conflation of two verses from the classic period of Old Testament prophecy in Isaiah 11 and Habakkuk 2.
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It was intended, quite flamboyantly, to fulfil Old Testament prophecy .
■ VERB
become
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It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy , though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
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It turns confusion into curiosity and stops myths from becoming self-fulfilling prophecies .
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I say this whether or not it is entirely true because I suspect my words can become a self-fulfilling prophecy .
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These labels can become self-fulfilling prophecies .
fulfil
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The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy .
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However, among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader - Rabbi Menachem Schneerson - will fulfil the Messianic prophecy .
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I finally encountered the bomb baby, thus fulfilling the ironic prophecy of my dreams.
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It was intended, quite flamboyantly, to fulfil Old Testament prophecy .
make
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Increased speed of communication means that people can act much more quickly and can make trends into self-fulfilling prophecies .
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They intended to make a prophecy that would be self-fulfilling in its entirety.
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Telling me his dream was one thing; making his first prophecy to the King's face was quite another.
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I haven't seen it clearly myself, but once, before he was King, I made a prophecy for Arthur.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Amazingly, the manager's prophecy that the team would get into the first division seems to be coming true.
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Lij Yasu was never crowned, possibly because he believed a prophecy that if he became king he would die.
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the biblical prophecy of a world war
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The old woman's prophecies of disaster were soon fulfilled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again and again, such prophecies dictate and determine his decisions, his attitudes, his course of action.
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Finally, there are the prophecies of Alexander's imminent death which were circulating weeks before his death.
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For without the women and their connection to the Earth, who would bring forth the prophecies?
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His prophecy was now coming true, perhaps even sooner than he would have dreamed.
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She had the gift of prophecy , performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.
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Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family, came to bring still another.
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Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
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When not experiencing visions, ecstasies, or prophecies, he authored Moral Theology and Glories of Ma ry.