as in diviner
a person who can tell what will happen in the future
The oracle told him to not make any major life decisions this month.
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Recent Examples of oracle
In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease and more.
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Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Perhaps only literary sci-fi oracles like him, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury could conceive of a future in which the past returns to both inform and challenge our understanding of reality.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The bespectacled, Gap khakis-wearing data oracle has been tapped to serrve as chief data analyst for NBC News and NBC Sports, according to the Los Angeles Times.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
Lawyers need to understand these tools aren’t magical oracles.
—Hessie Jones, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Perhaps only literary sci-fi oracles like him, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury could conceive of a future in which the past returns to both inform and challenge our understanding of reality.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The bespectacled, Gap khakis-wearing data oracle has been tapped to serrve as chief data analyst for NBC News and NBC Sports, according to the Los Angeles Times.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
Lawyers need to understand these tools aren’t magical oracles.
—Hessie Jones, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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On the sublime 12-inch version—dub itself being a kind of ghost music—Rico Rodriguez takes his long solo as if standing atop a prophet’s peak, overlooking a city in flames.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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During this time, the Nation of Islam’s theology included the idea that God came embodied in the person of Fard Muhammad, and that Elijah Muhammad was his prophet.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Maybe investors know something that the administration’s oddball collection of economic ideologues and mystics don’t understand.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
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For her part, af Klint identified more as a mystic than as an artist, at times claiming to channel the astral plane with her work.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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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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“Oracle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracle. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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