oracles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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