oracle
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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
Yet if Flanner was no oracle, she was also no fascist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 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
April had her mind set on the kind of oracle that got its messages from the gods through a high priestess with fits.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
In the age of oracles, learning to answer that question may be the most important thing any of us can do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
And recognize that oracles can have questions, too.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
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
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
The oracles all had special sacred places, caves or grottoes or specially built temples, and there were all sorts of far-out things connected with them like sacred fires and mystic vapors and magical statues.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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