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Recent Examples of oracular
Maybe more than the oracular feeling vaguely robotic, however, the opposite is true—that the robotic reminds us of the oracle.
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Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
Luckily, this is a worthy installment in the franchise director Denis Villeneuve helped revive, centering on the origins of the oracular group of women known as the Bene Gesserit.
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Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Jan. 2026
In Anika Jade Levy’s new novel, Flat Earth, her sentences, meant to be oracular at the time they were written, are at their most colorful and precise when describing the absurdity of America’s great swing toward the right.
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Air Mail,
15 Nov. 2025
With each passing year, Michaels has added to his list of oracular pronouncements.
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Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
Luckily, this is a worthy installment in the franchise director Denis Villeneuve helped revive, centering on the origins of the oracular group of women known as the Bene Gesserit.
—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Jan. 2026
In Anika Jade Levy’s new novel, Flat Earth, her sentences, meant to be oracular at the time they were written, are at their most colorful and precise when describing the absurdity of America’s great swing toward the right.
—
Air Mail,
15 Nov. 2025
With each passing year, Michaels has added to his list of oracular pronouncements.
—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracular
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Disclosure Day sees Daniel (O'Connor) and Margaret (Blunt) racing to evade the sinister Wardex corporation with the ultimate goal of disclosure.
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Over the past decade, Pride Nights have morphed into something much larger, radical and sinister, in my opinion.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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In 1989, sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined a term that now feels almost prophetic for any industry built on social consumption.
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As Silicon Valley debates whether AI will replace millions of office workers, one of the executives building the technology’s underlying infrastructure says Gen Z shouldn’t buy into the apocalyptic job displacement predictions.
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Chris is a freelance journalist who, when not writing, skywatching, playing games or building Lego, indulges his taste for horror, sci-fi and the post-apocalyptic.
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In this very funny parody of portentous British novels about nature, a pragmatic young woman goes to live on the family farm with her cousins, the passionately miserable Starkadders, and decides to reform them.
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Like the Gordy scene, this could be a portentous sequence in a much more critical film.
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Manufacturers are investing in predictive maintenance.
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The predictive markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket, swung heavily in favor of the Celtics in trading on Monday.
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The yin and yang found in 21 Savage’s menacing whispers over the bass and drums, derivative of Tay Keith’s style, and his stark threats over Metro Boomin’s familiar keys create atmospheric success.
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Fryer, who lives in Clifton, is now charged with assault, menacing and reckless endangerment.
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“Oracular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracular. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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