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Recent Examples of sibyl
Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.
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Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
There’s the Roman emperor Augustus and a sibyl in a 1435 painting by Konrad Witz.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 July 2019
Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
There’s the Roman emperor Augustus and a sibyl in a 1435 painting by Konrad Witz.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sibyl
Noun
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But things did not turn out as the prophetess dreamed.—
Jérôme Tubiana,
Foreign Affairs,
31 July 2015
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Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2024
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But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.—
John Kaag,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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In South Africa, the teen-age seer Nongqawuse foretold that the European settlers would be swept into the sea and a golden age would dawn—if only her people slaughtered their cattle and burned their crops.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
Noun
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Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next.—
Boone Ashworth,
Wired News,
18 July 2025
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After a soothsayer predicts that theater's future combines singing, drama and dancing, the duo begins to write the first-ever musical.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
6 June 2025
Noun
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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But that doesn’t rate the AI as being an oracle or a prophet.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Even if that outcome doesn’t come to pass, the attack has shaken cryptographers’ confidence in the Fiat-Shamir protocol, and the random oracle model more generally.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
9 July 2025
Noun
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There’s no fee per se, the fortune tellers do expect a small gratuity.—
JOE YOGERST,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The grounds will drip and scatter, and this is what the fortune teller will analyze to determine your fortune.—
Tyler Shane,
Wired News,
31 May 2025
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“Sibyl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sibyl. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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