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His victory speech, which will come later tonight, will be studied by pundits seeking to divine his intentions.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

Back in Malang, resident Ahmad Saifuddin joined others in praying for divine intervention.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The pair at last, like Odysseus or Virgil’s Aeneas, heed divine guidance: They are offered a way back to family and guided onward toward the “home” of eternity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Its definition of "allurement" includes employment, free education at a religious institution, a promise of marriage, a "better lifestyle" and "divine healing".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Didn’t the Bible say that God created man in His own divine image?

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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 ● Jul. 3, 2022

But it never does quite marry the two divines.

From Economist ● May 24, 2018

Adams talks a lot about “systemising”, the quintessentially autistic way in which he divines patterns in the world, often immersing himself in them.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2016

Puritan divines made explicit links between the washing of the physical body in water and that of the spirit in baptism.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2016

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 ● Feb. 3, 2024

Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

TULSA, Okla. — The landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is a diviner of places, a city whisperer.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2018

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2012

Finally, the leader scratched his chin—so spirits itched?—and gestured at the diviner standing nearby.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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 ● Feb. 26, 2010

Pavia, Pavia—and all the open space in front of it is drenched in April with that divinest smell.

From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim

It is the divinest experience the nose can give us.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Elegy is the expression in divinest poetry of the best conceptions of a noble soul upon the most serious topic on which human thought can dwell.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

Most of all his pen produced, of divinest poetry, of gravest philosophy, of grandest thought, was minted into words and inscribed in this simple apartment.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025

The challenge for those affected is that the precise position of US foreign policy is having to be divined.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

The status of their romance was divined through the way the nut burned.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

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 ● Apr. 19, 2023

The only children whose genders she hadn’t divined were her own, because it was bad luck for a mother to plumb the mysteries of her own womb.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Having said that, it's only two races into the season, so divining any clear pattern would be premature.

From BBC ● 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 ● 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 ● Nov. 17, 2025

Goth Shakira is an Aquarian digital conjurer and Queen of Pentacles divining in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

Clara realized that that was why none of her infallible methods of divining had worked.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende