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oracle

[awr-uh-kuhl, or-] / ˈɔr ə kəl, ˈɒr- /


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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

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

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 a matter of fact, I was about to quit the oracle business even before the rest of you decided to, yesterday.

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

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

As soon as he heard it, Toby remembered reading something about the Egyptian priests making predictions, but he just hadn’t been thinking about the oracles in connection with the Egypt Game until that moment.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder




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