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
And this desire for control, for some method to be brought to bear on the sinister uncertainty of life, explains also my susceptibility to oracles like the Yijing.
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Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Google isn’t a wise, all-knowing oracle.
—Jason Barnard, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
The quantum problem Kretschmer used as his foundation involved hypothetical computing devices called oracles that can instantaneously answer specific questions.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2025
Foreboding Song Before disaster strikes, a musical cue indicates to our oracle that something is amiss.
—Kellina Moore, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Google isn’t a wise, all-knowing oracle.
—Jason Barnard, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
The quantum problem Kretschmer used as his foundation involved hypothetical computing devices called oracles that can instantaneously answer specific questions.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2025
Foreboding Song Before disaster strikes, a musical cue indicates to our oracle that something is amiss.
—Kellina Moore, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The prophets of biblical Israel demand justice and care for the stranger, widow, and orphan.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the 15th century, Sufi mystics are said to have consumed it to stay awake during long nights of prayer and devotions.—
Ali Halit Diker,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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The Golem of Prague, rooted in 16th-century Jewish folklore, tells the story of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a renowned Talmudic scholar and mystic who sought to protect the Jewish community of Prague from antisemitic attacks and blood libel accusations.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 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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It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 May 2021
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And, in 2023, forecasters and Fed economists predicted a recession that never happened.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Hurricane forecasters are watching a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa that could develop into a tropical depression by next week.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Oracle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracle. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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