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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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Because everyone will have access to the same information, AI will accentuate the value of personal connections, again promoting lineages and networks that at their most extreme may appear to be sinister establishment conspiracies.
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Soon, Pinocchio – under the influence of a sinister Cricket (Robert Englund) — goes on a killing rampage to free James from everyone evil around him, and becoming a real boy in the process — one piece at a time.
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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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Fragments of email correspondence appear alongside bits of dialogue, histories of apocalyptic movements in Korea, and poems about the nature of time and the Bardo (the Tibetan Buddhist concept for the transitional period between death and rebirth).
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For many Parisians who are not physiologically vulnerable, the past week hasn’t been nearly as apocalyptic as media accounts have suggested.
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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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The cloud governance solutions of the future will likely be able to implement artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve compliance monitoring.
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Top football teams increasingly rely on big data and predictive algorithms to gain an advantage.
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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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Enola fearlessly climbs to the top of the carriage while wearing her white wedding dress, aiming a shotgun at the menacing figure.
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“Oracular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracular. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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