oracles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
Anyone who's heard or read any news stories about inflation in the past few months can't escape the pair of Delphic oracles, Larry Summers and Jason Furman.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2022
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
The Greeks thus offered sacrifices to keep the gods appeased, and sought out oracles for hints of what the future held, but did not normally pursue a deeply spiritual connection with their deities.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 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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