diviner

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

There is also Augure, a diviner who can sense the future, and from the start the omens look forbidding for the newlyweds.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

By the time Cass, a diviner who’s had disturbing visions before, returns with a policeman a second time, she has started to doubt what she saw.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2011

“Even though that question is to test me,” the diviner said, making me start, “to set your mind at ease, I’ll answer it. But remember this: I can read all your thoughts.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

But from a TV or filmgoer's point of view, Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil are fascinating diviners of human weakness and strategists on how best to exploit them.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

These diviners serve as business consultants and therapists, though loudspeakers near Lama Temple blare weekend warnings about fraud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2017

So where were the diviners of reasonable common ground?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

His largely silent performance in “The Revenant” as a severely wounded frontiersman, will almost assuredly bring him a sixth nomination — and very likely an ultimate win, Oscar diviners agree.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015

“Because I know what my father knew. And his father before him. It is what diviners know.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool