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
As she and Mr. Charlap performed standards on Wednesday, you had the feeling of being in the presence of an empathic sibyl gently reminding you that life goes on.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011
He shows Emperor Octavian asking the Tiburtine sibyl whether any king as great as he would ever live; the sibyl replies by showing the Emperor a vision of the Christ Child.
From Time Magazine Archive
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People were coming from as far away as Barahona to talk “through” this ebony black sibyl with the Mirabal sisters.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - High School
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