divine
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Deep dish pizza for all, but a World Series in Chicago this fall might truly require divine intervention.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 28, 2026
They regarded it as reflecting a perfect divine system.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
While deathly ill in 1373, a devout 30-year-old English mystic known as Julian of Norwich had a series of 16 visions of the divine.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 11, 2026
Many churches believe God has a divine plan for the end of everything.
From BBC β Sep. 3, 2026
Kepler specifically said that ‘my aim...is to show that the machine of the universe is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Brook was one of those rare divines, to borrow Portia’s metaphor from “The Merchant of Venice,” who followed his own instructions.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 3, 2022
But it never does quite marry the two divines.
From Economist β May 24, 2018
And Ms. Kim is equally good as Allison, who intuits that something’s gone slightly askew in her friendship with Lauren, but little divines how dire the situation really is.
From New York Times β Aug. 4, 2016
Puritan divines made explicit links between the washing of the physical body in water and that of the spirit in baptism.
From Washington Post β Jan. 5, 2016
The two divines wore tunics “the color of the men of light,” as Marcos called the color yellow.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Slate’s judicial diviner Mark Joseph Stern joins to talk about a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on abortion that really took both text and history and human rights seriously.
From Slate β Feb. 3, 2024
Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.
From Washington Post β Mar. 30, 2020
“I have no plan when I go into the studio,” said Garry Nichols, who has a sideline as a water diviner.
From New York Times β Jun. 5, 2013
The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.
From New York Times β Sep. 2, 2012
The diviner gave the diagnosis of my ailment.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
This belief was revived during the Renaissance, leading Milton to exclaim, in his poem “Il Penseroso”: “Hail divinest Melancholy/Whose saintly visage is too bright/To hit the sense of human sight.”
From New York Times β Feb. 26, 2010
Oft have I dreamed of Thee! whose glorious name Who knows not, knows not man's divinest lore:11 And now I view thee, 'tis, alas! with shame That I in feeblest accents must adore.
From Poems on Travel by Various
The divinest faculty in man is that by which truth is discovered.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
The ancients evidently considered philosophical poetry as of the highest kind, and its themes are invariably placed in the mouths of their divinest songsters446.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Obedience doth please The Ruler of this Realm far more than smell Of incense or divinest harmonies.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Meanwhile, Alex Fynn, an author and football consultant, divined that match-going fans would be seen by clubs as "incidental".
From BBC β May 4, 2026
Standard analysis divined from the usual awards season augury into the mix skews in favor of Anderson and “One Battle,” too.
From Salon β Mar. 13, 2026
Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.
From Slate β Jul. 10, 2025
For example, Roman priests divined the will of the gods by examining a sacrificed animal’s entrails, a custom adopted from the Etruscans.
From Textbooks β Apr. 19, 2023
Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Others have turned toward astrology, a less scientific but increasingly popular way of divining meaning from the night sky.
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 31, 2026
Having said that, it's only two races into the season, so divining any clear pattern would be premature.
From BBC β Mar. 24, 2026
In a Substack post on Wednesday, Basmajian identifies the most reliable sectors with predictive value for divining future economic activity.
From MarketWatch β Feb. 18, 2026
Goth Shakira is an Aquarian Queen of Pentacles divining and loving in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times β May 19, 2025
Why, she even had me pull the big Persian rug out of her divining room and beat the dust out of it with a broom.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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