divine
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Its definition of "allurement" includes employment, free education at a religious institution, a promise of marriage, a "better lifestyle" and "divine healing".
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
They regarded it as reflecting a perfect divine system.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
As its small cast obsesses over a fabled alien encounter and seems willing to stop at nothing to find release in a divine being, be careful, “The Pineapple” argues, of the personal Eden you seek.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 18, 2026
At that point, only divine intervention or an economic implosion could destroy the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Islamic Republic.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 15, 2026
All things in heaven and earth were mysteriously linked with the divine powers, but beautiful things most of all.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
Carrie boards the tube carriage where Aidan is sitting; Lev and Fionn share a birthday; Liam divines which bit of ocean is the right one to bump into Scott mid-dip.
From The Guardian β Jul. 1, 2017
He hears the story of Lancelot and divines his own magic, protective spear.
From Washington Post β Aug. 19, 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 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
TULSA, Okla. — The landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is a diviner of places, a city whisperer.
From New York Times β Aug. 10, 2018
“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
When the aging grandmother who grows forgetful and fears she is losing her mind comes to her, Miss Sadie, the diviner, comforts her.
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 β Feb. 26, 2010
Their Madonnas, Annunciations, Nativities and the like, are the sculptural counterpart to Angelico's divinest paintings, though never quite attaining to his spiritual insight and supra-sensible gaze upon life.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
The water was of that divinest temperature so that when he stopped still it was lovely, but when he moved he almost screamed with the rapturous heat of it.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
They travel on from height to height, In splendour to diffuse The truth that earth's divinest light Hath no abiding hues.
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
The two divinest things this world has got,
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
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
The challenge for those affected is that the precise position of US foreign policy is having to be divined.
From BBC β 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 β Apr. 19, 2023
Maybe he’d divined in me—correctly—this cowardice, this hideous pack instinct which would enable me to fall into step without question.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
This laudable notion of divining true skill should be extended to teachers to mitigate the oh-so-tempting use of AI in lesson plans, discussions, projects and tests.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 17, 2025
Goth Shakira is an Aquarian digital conjurer and Queen of Pentacles divining in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 16, 2024
No one could question his talent for divining the significance of the results produced by his elegant handmade equipment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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