How to Use oracle in a Sentence

oracle

noun

• I met her long before she had become the oracle of pop culture.
• There might be no such thing as an oracle, but there is the bond market.
  — Matt O'Brien, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Note: Anyone who doubts the existence of oracles has not spent enough time on a stool at the Maple Leaf Bar.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 27 July 2017
• So what does the oracle of Milan foretell for spring 2018?
  — Matt Sebra, GQ, 19 Mar. 2018
• Pablo’s own voice echoed alive on the tongue of a woman who was a willing conduit, an oracle!
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Fu Hao was a consort of the king, Wu Ding, which is reflected in the show’s display of oracle bones.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• As the oracle ages and his time on Earth becomes more precious, the price of dining with him keeps rising.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 2 June 2019
• Chaerephon asks the oracle whether there is anyone wiser than Socrates.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• This oracle approach, this black box approach, is doomed to fail.
  — Amy Gunia / Hong Kong, Time, 21 Dec. 2019
• To access it, approach the oracle in the temple by the river and answer the priestess’s three questions.
  — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• That’s the latest bit of news about the California races — none of it positive — from the East Coast oracles.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• The four are on their way to Noctis’ wedding to the oracle Lunafreya, when the unthinkable happens.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
• But Silver’s critics still felt like they had been misled—the oracle had seemed to have been debunked.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
• Even trans people — the omniscient oracles for the social-justice left — can’t toe the line.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 June 2018
• Sometimes the oracle had to come from Delphi to come into the center of town to prophesize.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
• What preoccupied the Greeks — the shepherds, the oracles, the hunt for Laius’s murderer — falls away.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Would the Yankees have believed the legend, had some oracle tried to inform them what was coming?
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 11 June 2017
• Vance’s struggles in the polling thus far have had little to do with his prospects as a conservative oracle.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2022
• The priestesses who tended the oracle at Delphi were known as Melissae.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Spies came to visit, too, treating him like a kind of oracle for their own profession.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• This part is really crucial to keep in mind: Your polygenic risk score isn’t an end-all, be-all oracle about your health.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 15 Nov. 2023
• This year the big tech CEOs expounding as celebrity oracles of the future were absent.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 31 May 2018
• While oracle cards are used in a similar way—that is, as a tool of self-reflection—there are fewer rules.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• An oracle card deck can include any number of cards and meanings.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• Erdman moved on to a Chinese oracle bone, and then to a little wooden board that, in ancient Egypt, had served as a sort of toe tag for a mummy.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
• That’s proof the forecaster is an oracle—and journalists love to look into the future with the help of a soothsayer.
  — Dan Gardner, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
• As Pollock’s oracle, Greenberg had a kind of prestige that no critic has had since.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• Especially at Olympia, home of the first Games and the Delphic oracle.
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
• The rare scene felt like seeing an oracle, which some cultures believe the kite symbolizes.
  — Theodore R. Johnson, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• The semi-reclusive mogul is probably the closest thing the media business has to an oracle.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024