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
After the election, betting sites may look less like oracles than mirrors, reflecting the nation’s disunity back at us.
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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
In 2021, researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence released an AI model, Delphi, named after the ancient Greek religious oracle.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
Her presence both as an oracle and a compassionate spiritual adviser has filled a void within the reality show that desperately needed filling, as its sometimes messy and impulsive cast members are not exactly known for considering the future when making decisions in the present.
—Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 2024
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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
In 2021, researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence released an AI model, Delphi, named after the ancient Greek religious oracle.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
Her presence both as an oracle and a compassionate spiritual adviser has filled a void within the reality show that desperately needed filling, as its sometimes messy and impulsive cast members are not exactly known for considering the future when making decisions in the present.
—Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 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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They are thought of not just as coaches but as gurus, prophets, avatars for particular ideas.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025
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But like so many great prophets before her, Ellen is not so well received in her time.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2024
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But according to heaps of meditators and mystics through the millennia, this, too, can be deconstructed.—
Oshan Jarow,
Vox,
8 Jan. 2025
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On the roof of the world, an enchanted kingdom of yetis and mystics is preparing to meet the modern world.—
By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan,
TIME,
16 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 6 Feb. 2025.
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