divine
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There have been eight female emperors on the Chrysanthemum Throne in Japan's imperial family, whose divine status was renounced after World War II.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Another clear argument against divine design is the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which takes a course that simply makes no sense to invent.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
There are many secular groups that address specific causes without requiring belief in the divine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
This would “place us openly under the divine protection,” he noted.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
It tasted like summer, like fun, like innocence in the Rio Grande; so I swallowed, and the purity of it was divine.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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 ● Jul. 3, 2022
But it never does quite marry the two divines.
From Economist ● 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 ● Aug. 4, 2016
The tech giant is understandably reluctant to share the secrets of how it divines such closely held data, though clearly it has special powers to tap into the hive mind of the greater Internet.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2015
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 ● Feb. 3, 2024
Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.
From Washington Post ● 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 ● Jun. 5, 2013
The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.
From New York Times ● 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 ● Feb. 26, 2010
O Friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee!
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
Thou dost dwell here, I know, divinest Joy: But they who build thy towers fair and strong, Of all that toil, feel most of care and wrong.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Nature is mother to all, and has a message for the meanest and most tried of her children; and it is a message of divinest love.
From Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)
“For when I drank of that divinest anguish, How could I taste the empty world again?”
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
The challenge for those affected is that the precise position of US foreign policy is having to be divined.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
The status of their romance was divined through the way the nut burned.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023
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 ● Apr. 19, 2023
The only children whose genders she hadn’t divined were her own, because it was bad luck for a mother to plumb the mysteries of her own womb.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Others have turned toward astrology, a less scientific but increasingly popular way of divining meaning from the night sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Having said that, it's only two races into the season, so divining any clear pattern would be premature.
From BBC ● 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 ● Feb. 18, 2026
Goth Shakira is an Aquarian digital conjurer and Queen of Pentacles divining in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
This time she left off all the divining gyrations and jingle-jangle antics and just started her story, plain and simple.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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