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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

For observant Jews, the Sabbath, or Shabbos, isn’t a wellness experiment; it’s a divine commandment that forms a cultural backbone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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

This would “place us openly under the divine protection,” he noted.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

Adams talks a lot about “systemising”, the quintessentially autistic way in which he divines patterns in the world, often immersing himself in them.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2016

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 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

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

I guessed I’d better fess up about the diviner, since that cat was out of the bag anyway.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

He who forsakes that business, and, wasting our divinest gifts, sings the praise of Chaos, what shall we say of him?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

For a few minutes both men surrendered themselves to Memory's divinest anguish.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

“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

You were calling the sofa the divinest of all creatures, I suppose, or perhaps asking the—the piano to put on its shoes and—elope with you.

From A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce by Bangs, John Kendrick

Standard analysis divined from the usual awards season augury into the mix skews in favor of Anderson and “One Battle,” too.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

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

Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

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

The most-watched broadcast TV show of the recently ended 2024-2025 season, according to Nielsen, is “Tracker,” which is highly entertaining, but not a significant source for divining meaning about America’s political and cultural health.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025

Goth Shakira is an Aquarian Queen of Pentacles divining and loving in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

I could walk out of that divining parlor right then and be done with it all.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool