divination
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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
From precolonial Mexico we discover obsidian mirrors used for divination in Mayan and Aztec ceremonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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
The ornate and carefully preserved drawings showcase the mysteries of medieval astrology as it intersected with medicine, divination and daily life in the Middle Ages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
At the bottom, wrapped in a silk scarf, was a book she’d had for twenty years: a commentary on the Chinese method of divination, the I Ching.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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
A few have professed conversion, and have made a general acknowledgment of sinfulness; but they did not like to talk about their divinations; they called them “foolishness.”
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
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The Alchemist
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