as in diviner
a person who can tell what will happen in the future
The oracle told him to not make any major life decisions this month.
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Recent Examples of oracle
After all, who wouldn't want a succinct answer to something like who the oracle of Delphi was?
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Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
But other, less helpful oracles have the opposite effect.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease and more.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
This could make decentralized apps and smart contracts more reliable and stable, especially in DeFi, where protocols rely heavily on oracles (which connect off-chain data to blockchains) for their day-to-day operations.
—Matvii Diadkov, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
But other, less helpful oracles have the opposite effect.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease and more.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
This could make decentralized apps and smart contracts more reliable and stable, especially in DeFi, where protocols rely heavily on oracles (which connect off-chain data to blockchains) for their day-to-day operations.
—Matvii Diadkov, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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On the sublime 12-inch version—dub itself being a kind of ghost music—Rico Rodriguez takes his long solo as if standing atop a prophet’s peak, overlooking a city in flames.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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During this time, the Nation of Islam’s theology included the idea that God came embodied in the person of Fard Muhammad, and that Elijah Muhammad was his prophet.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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In his first acting role in The Mage, Taheri plays the logically-minded chief of police who is at loggerheads with the titular mystic, played by Ho, while investigating a series of mysterious crimes.—
Karen Chu,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Mar. 2025
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Another influential saint was the 14th-century Italian mystic and writer Catherine of Siena.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.—
Nancy Princenthal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2024
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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
14 Oct. 2020
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“Oracle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracle. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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