Oracle

//ˈɔɹəkəl//

"Oracle" in a Sentence (25 examples)

The oracle was fulfilled.

It said "Oracle Master," so I thought it was something related to spirits, but no, it was only about computers. Boring.

I went to one of the men who seemed to be wise, thinking that there I should test the oracle.

"In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand."

Dealing with AI-generated art, I cherish the notion that the AI functions like an oracle or a slot machine.

Oracle bones discovered on this site provide the earliest records of Chinese writing.

There are some things about which I am pondering: Is the potential threat of Artificial Intelligence to humanity just "geek anxiety" or is it real? Is chat with AI like an oracle with psychic influence? There is some "dice-rolling" in the way the AI makes sentences in whatever language. Will AGI or Artificial General Intelligence have psychic attributes, as do some humans? Will a "soul" exist in intelligent machines? I have recollections as a boy: I stirred powdered chocolate in a cup, and the moving powder on the water I imagined to be plate tectonics. I swooped my hand or paper plane in a lush tropical garden and over misty horizontal freezers, as I imagined my hand or paper plane to be a flitting spaceship over an alien planet.

I'm thinking about becoming an oracle.

He secretly visited the oracle.

The oracle taught that the faith of the laity was the obverse of the gods' hidden despair.

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The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.

The several oracles included in this haftarah presumably were uttered at different times to the people in exile, presenting diverse themes and using distinct styles.

Fight all couragiouſly and be you kings, I ſpeake it, and my words are oracles.

Shee ſtiles her ſelfe their Chiefe, and ſweares ſhee will command; / And, what-ſo-ere ſhee ſaith, for Oracles muſt ſtand.

a literary oracle

oracles of mode

The country rectors […] thought him an oracle on points of learning.

"Madame de l'Hôpital has been quite la fée bienfaisante" said Lauzun, who, like others, had been consulting the oracle. "I am bewildered by my future good fortune. I quite anticipate being married, if it is to bring me all that she predicts."

God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.

And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Siloa's brook, that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God.

Thus, an oracle machine (which enacts an oracle algorithm) would be like an ordinary Turing machine, except that adjoined to its ordinary computational operations would be another operation: ‘Call in the oracle and ask it whether C_q(n) stops; […]

For example, an oracle may send temperature data reported by the National Weather Service or report the daily LIBOR rate to a smart contract.

But this thy glory shall be soon retrench'd; No more shalt thou by oracling abuse The Gentiles; henceforth Oracles are ceast

Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won the “breakthrough actor of the year” prize for “Ray” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored for “Crash” four months before it won best picture.

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