Before paper, writings were recorded on bamboo slips, silk, or oracle bones, which were heavy or expensive.
Love is no oracle.
Presentiment had not been mistaken in her impulse: there is a kind of presentiment which never is mistaken; it was I who had for a moment miscalculated; not seeing the true bearing of the oracle, I had thought she muttered of vision when, in truth, her prediction touched reality.
" an oracle that made me shrug my shoulders as soon as I had got outside the door.
Such an oracle really whets my curiosity.
She looks up to him as an oracle now, and by-and-by she will be at the other extreme.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr knows his team has suffered some uncharacteristic losses this season, including six at Oracle Arena, but he remains confident it will be able to bounce back and reach its peak in the near future.
The company said Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, head of human resources at Walgreens, had joined as part of a settlement with financial regulators who demanded more scrutiny and oversight of the 47-year-old tech entrepreneur, known for making headline grabbing statements.
Jiaguwen, or "oracle bone script", the earliest Chinese writing inscriptions carved on tortoise shells and animal scapulas, comes alive on the Chinese internet and evolves as a new online language among the young generation.
I am not oracle, why I can't make mistakes.
Then, Westbrook showed up at Golden State's Oracle Arena in a photographer's vest (a passive-aggressive shot at Durant's day as a photographer for The Players' Tribune).
China's oracle bone scripts, an ancient type of Chinese characters inscribed on animal bones or turtle shells, have successfully entered the UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, according to the Chinese Ministry of Education.
"As US companies, we wish to go on record that enforcement action against Google is necessary and appropriate, not provincial," the seven signatories, including News Corp, Oracle and Yelp, wrote.
According to the New York Times, the contenders are Sony, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox and, unexpectedly, the relatively new Annapurna, financed and led by Megan Ellison, the heiress of Oracle.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was number five and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison was number seven.
Oracle, which last week lost a court battle with Google, also took an aggressive tack, accusing the search giant of violating its copyright to develop the Android operating system.
The Rockets' star guard was alone, very alone on the offensive end in noisy Oracle Arena.
Asked if this was a direct attack on Oracle, the leading database software company, he added: "They are the incumbents, absolutely.
The team launched a relational database management system called Oracle.
In a humiliating 111-77 loss to the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena, Bryant shot 1-of-14 from the field, including 1-of-7 from 3-point range, and scored four points.
