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divination

[div-uh-ney-shuhn] / ˌdɪv əˈneɪ ʃən /


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Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

A bewitching survey looks at the unexpected, centuries-old genesis of the divination cards, and the ways they endured and changed in the modern era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Love yourself by letting go of what was, thankfully, never ours to control in the first place — the divine divination of love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Ancestral divination is imperative in order to get through to that, because they’re always there watching.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

Then you sort through the results and determine the divination.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Now, as a parent, I know better: They were divinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Mercury in retrograde was believed to impede such endeavors, as well as these astrologers’ divinations.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023

Each village had several shamans, who specialized in various divinations, healings and funeral rites.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023

This is always a busy time at the Club as we take turns peering into a fresh batch of election results and sharing our divinations.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

The divinations of the greatest men have been vague and strange, and none have been stranger than those of the author of the De Monarchia.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church




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