sibyls

plural of sibyl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sibyls
Noun
  • The women in my family could never be oracles, dead long before fifty.
    Leila Chatti September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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
  • By contrast, contemporary techno-futurists like Musk lead powerful multinational corporations that influence economies and cultures across the globe.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The same corporate event planners who used to book futurists with hologram slide decks are now on the hunt for celebrity performers who can yank an audience out of its AI stupor for ten electrifying minutes.
    Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Dangerous conditions from the building swells will be concentrated along the eastern shores of the islands, forecasters said.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For severe weather information this weekend in Kentucky, see what NWS forecasters say here.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Sibyls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sibyls. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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