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Recent Examples of sibyl
Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.
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Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
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
It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
There’s the Roman emperor Augustus and a sibyl in a 1435 painting by Konrad Witz.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 July 2019
Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
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
It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
There’s the Roman emperor Augustus and a sibyl in a 1435 painting by Konrad Witz.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sibyl
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But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2015
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Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
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Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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That should be hard to pull off in a movie that doesn’t acknowledge the existence of Spider-Man, and yet Venom succeeds where Morbius and Madame Web—Jared Leto’s vampiric superhero and Dakota Johnson’s clairvoyant seer—stumble.James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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Through an inexplicable turn of events, Talbot slays a wolf with an antique silver cane; a soothsayer later informs him that the victim is, in fact, her transformed son.EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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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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Built on Ethereum, UMA (Universal Market Access) is a decentralized oracle.Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The authors of lot oracles came prepared for petitioners’ implicit doubt.Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Maybe Hudson will meet a fortune teller in the next few days in order to get the ball rolling.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 20 July 2024
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Of course, time may be running out for our fortune teller—and for every witch who had the misfortune of joining Agatha’s quest.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Sibyl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sibyl. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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