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
Built on Ethereum, UMA (Universal Market Access) is a decentralized oracle.
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Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
The authors of lot oracles came prepared for petitioners’ implicit doubt.
—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
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Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
The authors of lot oracles came prepared for petitioners’ implicit doubt.
—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
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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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The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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The witches act as dancers and backup singers as well as prophets.Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2024
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That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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The secretive leader allegedly sought the advice of mystics before launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Harriet Marsden, theweek, 23 Sep. 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 31 Dec. 2024.
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