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oracle

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


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Recently, cookbook author and food-world oracle Alison Roman gave Loonen her social-media stamp of approval after discovering it at Two Bunch Palms hotel in Desert Hot Springs, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

"If implemented at scale, it could represent a milestone in the history of knowledge storage, akin to oracle bones, medieval parchment or the modern hard drive," they said.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

Such questions call for an oracle, a big thinker, a visionary.

From Slate Dec. 9, 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

Where was my answer, the riddle of the oracle, the ambiguous utterance of prophecy?

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Star Feliz, a New York artist now based in L.A., was exploring the connection between civilian oracles and artificial technologies in their art when they were approached to make a new piece for the show.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

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

And recognize that oracles can have questions, too.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2022

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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