oracle

Spiralism has no leader, no doctrine, no central text—only the algorithm, which each user takes as a personal oracle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

"If implemented at scale, it could represent a milestone in the history of knowledge storage, akin to oracle bones, medieval parchment or the modern hard drive," they said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

Such questions call for an oracle, a big thinker, a visionary.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

Days later, the Dalai Lama fled the palace, a decision he said was based on divine orders from his personal oracle.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

“I don’t have anything in mind. It’s just that I don't want anybody else to either. At least, not until we find out what the oracle can do all by itself.”

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Messrs. Schmidt and Gates may think they can allay the fear and despair they’ve helped to inspire by issuing a few oracles on the unwisdom of catastrophism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

It just seems as though through habit, habituation, comfort-sleepwalking, or myopia, we are so narrowly focused on this small tranche of cases and still treat the justices as oracles.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2024

Sanjayan has long been concerned that a certain uniformity in style among the oracles of climate change has kept their message from breaking through in a maximally effective way.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

Jocasta tries to reassure her husband that oracles don’t always get it right by telling him that one once told Laius that he would die by his son’s end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2020

Among the stuff reported to the class was a list of the countries that had depended on oracles to help the rulers decide how to run things.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder