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Recent Examples of oracular
Grade’s novels aren’t oracular, the way the section on postwar Vilna in his memoir was.
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Lynch plays Cole as a secular prophet, a grand and monumental presence dispensing wisdom and judgment with a self-deprecating yet oracular intensity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
The bottom line: Odds aren't oracular — even a 99% chance is not a sure thing.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
The book carries Ward’s characteristic mélange of vernacular speech and lush, sometimes oracular prose, immersing readers in the blessings — and difficulties — of family, the ways that bonds can both nurture and destroy.
—Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Lynch plays Cole as a secular prophet, a grand and monumental presence dispensing wisdom and judgment with a self-deprecating yet oracular intensity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
The bottom line: Odds aren't oracular — even a 99% chance is not a sure thing.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
The book carries Ward’s characteristic mélange of vernacular speech and lush, sometimes oracular prose, immersing readers in the blessings — and difficulties — of family, the ways that bonds can both nurture and destroy.
—Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oracular
Adjective
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As digitally dropped threats from an unknown predator grow increasingly sinister during the protagonist’s big date at a Chicago restaurant, the messages blast across the big screen in huge letters, or plaster an entire wall of the ladies’ restroom.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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Thorne starred in the film as a young woman who discovers her father has been killed after returning to her small hometown, while Rourke, 72, starred as a sinister sheriff.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The lawfare against Marine Le Pen proves just how prophetic those warnings were.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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Often heralded as prophetic, this novel centers on a young girl with a debilitating form of hyperempathy.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Another is about death itself and the portentous ride to the other side.—
Sezin Devi Keohler,
EW.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Other portentous allegories ensue.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Last of Us tells the story of two survivors (Ramsey and Pedro Pascal) many years after the onset of an apocalyptic plague.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Apr. 2025
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For a movie about an apocalyptic clash of vampires and gangsters, Sinners has moments of unexpected jubilance, even rapture.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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If the sky becomes menacing and thunder becomes audible, seek out a safe place to seek shelter.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2025
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With its stout bastions and menacing defense towers, Kaunas Castle is the epitome of a medieval citadel.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With predictive analytics and real-time fraud detection, AI can strengthen security and provide users with peace of mind, which is often lacking in areas where financial fraud is common.—
Abhishek Gandotra,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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By building predictive maps using machine learning and collaborating with a global network of scientists, SPUN is looking for hotspots of mycorrhizal activity and identifying gaps in current conservation efforts.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Women are thought of as contaminants in the heya and arm candy outside it; the sponsors exert a baleful commercial pressure on the fighters.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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The effect is to rub our faces in the self-destructive horror of the heroine’s impulses and to shift that baleful sense of the erotic’s dark power from a disturbing subtext to a more sensationalized foreground.—
Jim Shepard,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Oracular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oracular. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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