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Recent Examples of oracular
The grandeur of Boxley’s influence is conveyed by his terse, oracular speech.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
Maybe more than the oracular feeling vaguely robotic, however, the opposite is true—that the robotic reminds us of the oracle.
—
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
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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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With England’s subsequent very real campaign at South Korea/Japan ’02 drawing several parallels, the film proved to be strangely prophetic.
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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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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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If the sky becomes menacing and thunder becomes audible, seek out a safe place to seek shelter.
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For his trouble, he’s escorted out of the neighborhood in his shiny Sting Ray by a foursome of menacing dirtbikes.
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“Oracular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracular. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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