oracle
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We have traded the library for an oracle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Such questions call for an oracle, a big thinker, a visionary.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
An oracle is a person, usually possessing long-earned wisdom, that can share reliable information about the future.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 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
As soon as Ken had written his question, Toby grabbed the folded paper, and, stepping up to the new altar, he started right in being the priest of the oracle.
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
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
The Greeks thus offered sacrifices to keep the gods appeased, and sought out oracles for hints of what the future held, but did not normally pursue a deeply spiritual connection with their deities.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
But of course, he talks with no such oracles, reads nothing worthwhile, and has accumulated no life lessons of any relevance here.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2019
“Neither prophets nor oracles have any knowledge,” she said.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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