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

“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

Finally, the leader scratched his chin—so spirits itched?—and gestured at the diviner standing nearby.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

“In 2020, specifically, there was general agreement that masses flocked to astrology,” astrologer Julia Kelley said, referring to her community of celestial diviners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

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

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

“Pigs are excellent water diviners, too. I recall reading that somewhere. She could help Alice find waterfalls.”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George