oracle
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He was seen by some as an artificial-intelligence oracle, with other investors closely tracking his firm’s movements as it placed big, leveraged bets on AI-related companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
When Paul the Octopus predicted all of Germany's results correctly at the 2010 World Cup, he was hailed by the world as an oracle.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
Such questions call for an oracle, a big thinker, a visionary.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
It doesn’t take an oracle to see there just might be an opportunity in Oracle.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
The oldest preserved Chinese writing of the late Shang Dynasty consists of religious divination about dynastic affairs, incised into so-called oracle bones.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
Regaling his colleagues with the story of his love affair with radio, “Neal didn’t invoke the great broadcast news oracles of our youth,” Siegel remembered.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 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
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
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