oracle
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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
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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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