oracles

plural of oracle

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Recent Examples of oracles For example, while experts use chatbots as collaboration tools—riffing on ideas, clarifying intuitions—novices often treat them mistakenly as automation tools, oracles that speak from a bottomless well of knowledge. David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025 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. Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • As a Pentecostal movement, the denomination teaches that God speaks through modern spiritual leaders to call out hypocrisy and injustice, much like the prophets of the Old Testament.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The most influential one that forecasters look at is the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But not before one final spurt of slightly higher energy, forecasters said Tuesday morning.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Oracles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracles. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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