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
Sandra Tsing Loh served as the unrehearsed actor on opening night, following the script’s instructions and ultimately presiding over an evening of charades dreamed up in advance by an oracle.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
This geospatial oracle system can operate even if GPS satellites or centralized mapping servers go down.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Inside the Faena Hotel Cathedral, Lyra Drake’s Faith in a Finite World invites guests to engage with a divine feminine oracle powered by custom AI.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Yet in our increasingly digital world, the tangible nature of oracle and tarot decks offers a rare form of material connection—something to hold, shuffle, and physically engage with outside the digital realm.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
This geospatial oracle system can operate even if GPS satellites or centralized mapping servers go down.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Inside the Faena Hotel Cathedral, Lyra Drake’s Faith in a Finite World invites guests to engage with a divine feminine oracle powered by custom AI.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Yet in our increasingly digital world, the tangible nature of oracle and tarot decks offers a rare form of material connection—something to hold, shuffle, and physically engage with outside the digital realm.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Shakespeare lives in the sky, whereas Joyce was his prophet on earth who Willy spent a lot more time reading and thinking about.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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For someone who agrees with his super-restrictive immigration policy ideas, Stein is a kind of prophet whose decades of advocacy as president of the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are finally bearing fruit in president Trump's second term.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Two panoramic terraces look out onto Positano and the sea, framed by leafy plants, colorful throw pillows and flapping curtains that add a touch of mystic to the whole ambiance.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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The Conference of the Birds is a poem about sufism, the doctrine propounded by the mystics of Islam.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 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 15 Jul. 2025.
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