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
So Far The village oracle cursed Kratos by literally bonding the ashes of his deceased family to his body, earning him the Ghost of Sparta nickname for his ghostly white visage.
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Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
Following a warning from an oracle, Atalanta, known for her swift running pace, proclaimed that a potential suitor must beat her in a footrace, and that losers be killed.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Next came a way to extend the oracle into the oracle network.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Another story about oracles is the one about the Sibyl of Cumae, an oracle.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
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Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
Following a warning from an oracle, Atalanta, known for her swift running pace, proclaimed that a potential suitor must beat her in a footrace, and that losers be killed.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Next came a way to extend the oracle into the oracle network.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Another story about oracles is the one about the Sibyl of Cumae, an oracle.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracle
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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New prophets competed to revive her army in their image.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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For them, the Nazarene is not a charlatan, but an upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things, like other great prophets in the history of Israel.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
Noun
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The Conference of the Birds is a poem about sufism, the doctrine propounded by the mystics of Islam.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Perhaps the mystics and statistics were waiting for the right moment.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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 3 Jun. 2025.
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