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oracular

[aw-rak-yuh-ler, oh-rak-] / ɔˈræk yə lər, oʊˈræk- /


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Kusama took on an oracular aspect in the dark as she spoke.

From New York Times

Icke has reworked Ibsen’s oracular 1882 play, about a whistleblower in a Scandinavian town dependent for economic survival on a spa whose waters he knows to be contaminated.

From Washington Post

Clocking in at nearly five and a half hours, it lets you experience oracular powers long after you have finished viewing Biggers’s monumental sculpture.

From New York Times

Or is this dismayingly erratic yet so frequently illuminating text exactly what it was when its author laid down the burden of his oracular vision of our literature?

From New York Times

Anne Washburn gives herself no such breathing room in “Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017,” her thrillingly oracular but unfinished-feeling fantasy about the failures of liberalism in the deep recent past.

From New York Times