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

The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2012

“You peeked at my menu,” he said, pretending to be hurt, even though it didn’t take a diviner to figure that out.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

“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

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

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool