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divination

[div-uh-nay-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

The “Harry Potter” team did not need a divination expert to know its cast would encounter some “unpleasant and aggressive behavior.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

The shamans, like the one seen in “Squid Game,” usually are mediators to the spirit world using divination or other rituals.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025

Then you sort through the results and determine the divination.

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

Muzi, a Taoist monk and sailmaker, joins the crew partway through the novel and guides the captain using divinations from the “I Ching,” something which the rest of the crew finds understandably strange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

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

In this work he also treated of the origin of hydromancy, and other superstitious divinations.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop


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