sibyl

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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2021

Since the mid-1980s, Ms. Cook has reigned as a kind of sibyl channeling the wisdom and humanity of the American songbook, particularly as embodied in the work of Stephen Sondheim.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016

The writer: syndicated Gossip Columnist Joyce Haber, 42, who was ousted by the Times after nine years of being cheered, feared and courted as Hollywood's most powerful journalistic sibyl.

From Time Magazine Archive

But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez