How to Use oracle in a Sentence

oracle

noun
  • I met her long before she had become the oracle of pop culture.
  • His own voice sounds hoarse and nasty to him, the voice of a gloomy oracle.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There might be no such thing as an oracle, but there is the bond market.
    — Matt O'Brien, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • These rappers were like oracles that spoke to me.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Those women who, like oracles, spoke the true thing.
    — Leila Chatti september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Google isn’t a wise, all-knowing oracle.
    — Jason Barnard, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • First off, the guy on the sidewalk outside the liquor store was a drunk, not an oracle.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This oracle approach, this black box approach, is doomed to fail.
    — Amy Gunia / Hong Kong, Time, 21 Dec. 2019
  • But that doesn’t rate the AI as being an oracle or a prophet.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • An oracle card deck can include any number of cards and meanings.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
  • Pablo’s own voice echoed alive on the tongue of a woman who was a willing conduit, an oracle!
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Chaerephon asks the oracle whether there is anyone wiser than Socrates.
    — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Cordelia storms into episode two as a kind of oracle for the rest of the season for Yasmin.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Spies came to visit, too, treating him like a kind of oracle for their own profession.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • This season, his locker mate is making Ramírez look like an oracle.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Vance’s struggles in the polling thus far have had little to do with his prospects as a conservative oracle.
    — The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2022
  • While oracle cards are used in a similar way—that is, as a tool of self-reflection—there are fewer rules.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
  • As the oracle ages and his time on Earth becomes more precious, the price of dining with him keeps rising.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 2 June 2019
  • The women in my family could never be oracles, dead long before fifty.
    — Leila Chatti september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But Silver’s critics still felt like they had been misled—the oracle had seemed to have been debunked.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • Next came a way to extend the oracle into the oracle network.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Like any good oracle, Le Bon knows precisely what the future holds.
    — Rumaan Alam, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Even trans people — the omniscient oracles for the social-justice left — can’t toe the line.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 June 2018
  • Even Alice Stewart, our de facto sports oracle, missed the mark.
    — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Back in the 90s, videos about computer chips and global warming serve as oracles.
    — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Would the Yankees have believed the legend, had some oracle tried to inform them what was coming?
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 11 June 2017
  • After all, who wouldn't want a succinct answer to something like who the oracle of Delphi was?
    — Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Back in the ’90s, videos about computer chips and global warming serve as oracles.
    — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 June 2026
  • Her voice was clear and authoritative, like an oracle’s.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • As Pollock’s oracle, Greenberg had a kind of prestige that no critic has had since.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021

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