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
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.
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Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
In a lighthearted twist on election predictions, a dog named Joy has emerged as the latest oracle for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
After the election, betting sites may look less like oracles than mirrors, reflecting the nation’s disunity back at us.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling.
—Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
In a lighthearted twist on election predictions, a dog named Joy has emerged as the latest oracle for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
After the election, betting sites may look less like oracles than mirrors, reflecting the nation’s disunity back at us.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling.
—Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Being wrong puts off neither prophets nor their followers.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor, prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was born on that humble spot on December 23, 1805.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Dec. 2024
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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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This was a soulful testifying that truly went into the mystic.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 Jan. 2025
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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 9 Mar. 2025.
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