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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Additional methods include asking reliable spiritual masters for their divination, consulting oracles, and interpreting visions received by senior lamas during meditation at sacred lakes.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
To ask for advice is to reach for a person whose vision exceeds yours, for reasons supernatural (oracles, mediums), professional (doctors, lawyers), or pastoral (parents, friends).
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
When conditions are met (e.g., delivery confirmed via oracle or IoT sensor), payment flows instantly.
—Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
On Sunday, the Omaha oracle pointed UCLA’s way, the Bruins inching one step closer to advancing to the College World Series.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
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Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
To ask for advice is to reach for a person whose vision exceeds yours, for reasons supernatural (oracles, mediums), professional (doctors, lawyers), or pastoral (parents, friends).
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
When conditions are met (e.g., delivery confirmed via oracle or IoT sensor), payment flows instantly.
—Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
On Sunday, the Omaha oracle pointed UCLA’s way, the Bruins inching one step closer to advancing to the College World Series.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 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
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For all her outward support, his wife has clearly begun to have her doubts about her beloved prophet.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
21 Aug. 2025
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The main point of contention seemed to be identifying Timothy Leary as a poet (seven minutes) or a prophet (half an hour).—
Dennis McNally,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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The irony was that Harlem’s numbers queen, a model of rational risk-taking, found herself in a love triangle with a dream-book mystic—then took to the newspapers to denounce Futtam’s obvious impostures.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Gamblers are mystics at heart, and lottery players see all sorts of patterns in the supposedly random sequences of winning numbers.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
19 June 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 25 Aug. 2025.
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