cassandra
卡桑德拉
Definitions
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- : Also called Alexandra. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, a prophet cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies, though true, were fated never to be believed.
- : a person who prophesies doom or disaster.
- : a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “helper of men.”
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Examples
Like an offsets Cassandra, he’s repeatedly issued warnings on how false savings threaten the integrity of offsets everywhere.
Our lost narrator is both a hot mess and a sort of Cassandra, who sees humanity hurtling toward a scary future and ignoring all the signs of what needs to change.
Cassandra said the organizers have already received a video from Warren Buffett the Money Guy, who’s done pretty well since attending Deal.
He, too, has been having the fire Cassandra conversation for 30 years.
Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
Context: When asked by her sister Cassandra if she wanted anything as she lay on her deathbed.
Cassandra Jean: Listening to my mom assist my grandma in changing her Facebook profile pic.
“Barack has become a kind of human Rorschach test,” his friend Cassandra Butts told Rolling Stone.
I was deemed “a digital Cassandra” by David Pogue writing in The New York Times.
I told Royal I didn't like it, it was too much like Cassandra.
This is the last letter which we have from Jane to Cassandra.
My dear ,—Shall you expect to hear from me on Wednesday or not?