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 semi-reclusive mogul is probably the closest thing the media business has to an oracle.
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
Unlikely oracle for the Fox News crowd Pete Buttigieg, 42, has proven himself as the one Democrat who can go on Fox News and effectively score political points with the network’s conservative audience.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
This would also help the audience see there are no economic oracles—and that any economist comporting themselves as such should be avoided.
—Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024
Hayek feared the rise of the omniscient economic oracle: a laurate at once whispering into leaders’ ears and shouting at the public even as their predictions remain largely guesswork.
—Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
Unlikely oracle for the Fox News crowd Pete Buttigieg, 42, has proven himself as the one Democrat who can go on Fox News and effectively score political points with the network’s conservative audience.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
This would also help the audience see there are no economic oracles—and that any economist comporting themselves as such should be avoided.
—Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024
Hayek feared the rise of the omniscient economic oracle: a laurate at once whispering into leaders’ ears and shouting at the public even as their predictions remain largely guesswork.
—Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 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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Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Something analogous to one of the Mormon prophets is going to be someone who saves America from civil war and disaster.Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 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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These notorious mystics from film and television exemplify their corresponding zodiac sign.Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 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 Nov. 2024.
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