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
Their oracle, the seer Teiresias, enters the scene to give voice to their will and put Creon in the wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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
Then they would write it on a piece of paper and bring the paper to the temple 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
She must make her best guesses about whose history matters and wait to see what the history oracles will permit.
From Slate ● May 8, 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
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 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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