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
The authors of lot oracles came prepared for petitioners’ implicit doubt.
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Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Though the oracle also claims to boast connections to Pythagoras and Alexander the Great, Beard deems this implausible.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Jack Leach returns as the bespectacled oracle after a year of injury woes while his county colleague Shoaib Bashir, who made a debut against India in February, has become the number one pick.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
The semi-reclusive mogul is probably the closest thing the media business has to an oracle.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
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Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Though the oracle also claims to boast connections to Pythagoras and Alexander the Great, Beard deems this implausible.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Jack Leach returns as the bespectacled oracle after a year of injury woes while his county colleague Shoaib Bashir, who made a debut against India in February, has become the number one pick.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
The semi-reclusive mogul is probably the closest thing the media business has to an oracle.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Jason Lemon, Senior Politics Editor Philosophy The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran | Penguin Classics The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays by the legendary writer Gibran about a fictional prophet who is asked by townspeople to discuss matters of life before sailing home.Newsweek Staff, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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The obvious question is, how can a false prophet have the ability to perform miracles?Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2024
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The mystics were not just these people having these strange extreme experiences.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
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The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 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 21 Dec. 2024.
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