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Goracle
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English
Etymology
en Gore oracle.
Proper noun
1
en informal usually sarcastic Al Gore (born 1948), the 45th vice president of the United States (1993–2001), especially when viewed as a prophet of environmental catastrophe.
en 2007-03-01 Maureen Dowd Goracle needs to ponder near future, especially 2008 The Times-Tribune 136 Scranton, PA Times-Shamrock Communications 1930-6377 A13 Will he use his green moment on the red carpet in black tie to snag blue states and win the White House? ¶ Only the Goracle knows the answer.
en 2007 October Mort Rosenblum Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival New York, N.Y. St. Martin's Press 0312364407 83 https://archive.org/details/escapingplatosca0000rose_l7n6/page/82/mode/2up?q=Goracle The inconvenient truth that Al Gore laid out in his film and book already falls short of reality. When first dropped, his bombshell was a muffled rumble. But as the message sank in and momentum built, the Goracle got our attention.
en 2009-12-12 Peter Foster The Goracle speaks on Climategate National Post Don Mills, Ont. National Post Inc. 12 40 Financial Post FP21 True believers in catastrophic man-made climate change have been waiting for Al Gore to lead them through the Valley of Climategate. This week, The Goracle spoke.
en 2018 Bad Environmentalism Nicole Seymour 69 The film thus takes environmental issues out of the province of the expert and the elite and gives us an environmentalist hero who is more relatable than the so-called Goracle of An Inconvenient Truth, or, to take a fictional example, the paleoclimatologist of The Day after Tomorrow.
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