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
But other, less helpful oracles have the opposite effect.
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Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease and more.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
This could make decentralized apps and smart contracts more reliable and stable, especially in DeFi, where protocols rely heavily on oracles (which connect off-chain data to blockchains) for their day-to-day operations.
—Matvii Diadkov, Forbes, 16 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
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Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease and more.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
This could make decentralized apps and smart contracts more reliable and stable, especially in DeFi, where protocols rely heavily on oracles (which connect off-chain data to blockchains) for their day-to-day operations.
—Matvii Diadkov, Forbes, 16 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
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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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Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The biblical prophet was born in Egypt, where the Israelites were enslaved, and soon after Pharaoh ordered the murder of all their newborn sons.—
Miriam Eve Mora,
The Conversation,
14 Mar. 2025
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Kibbe himself, now in his seventies, remains both the system’s prophet and its greatest mystery.—
Rachel Hills,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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Another influential saint was the 14th-century Italian mystic and writer Catherine of Siena.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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The canyon has long been considered sacred by Native people and, more recently, holy by pilgrims and unique by New Age mystics and psychics who believe in its spiritual powers.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
15 Nov. 2024
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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 25 Mar. 2025.
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