divine
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They regarded it as reflecting a perfect divine system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
For Antigone this is an imposition of political power over divine law, and she puts her life on the line to uphold her obligation to her family and faith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Romans saw meteor showers and eclipses as divine auguries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sadhguru's "sacred walks", organised by his Isha Foundation, promised a journey to a place "of divine connection, where the veil between the physical and spiritual is thin".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
A few things have fallen into place—things that I hope are more divine intervention than some ancient family curse leading me into a trap that’s gonna end my batball career.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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
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
He hears the story of Lancelot and divines his own magic, protective spear.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2015
“But the old place is finished,” Mr Stockton divines, “and it’s never coming back.”
From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015
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
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
TULSA, Okla. — The landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is a diviner of places, a city whisperer.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2018
Naturally, with my Western education, I found such an explanation preposterous; I decided to “test” the diviner.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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 little to him who is cutting his marble to the divinest form, that the whole city reeks with grime and smoke, and all its outlines are misshapen and ugly.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
The refuge of divinest things, Their record must abide in thee.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
The ancients evidently considered philosophical poetry as of the highest kind, and its themes are invariably placed in the mouths of their divinest songsters446.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Meanwhile, Alex Fynn, an author and football consultant, divined that match-going fans would be seen by clubs as "incidental".
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Standard analysis divined from the usual awards season augury skews in favor of Anderson and “One Battle,” too.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
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
Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Others have turned toward astrology, a less scientific but increasingly popular way of divining meaning from the night sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
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
Goth Shakira is an Aquarian digital conjurer and Queen of Pentacles divining in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
No one could question his talent for divining the significance of the results produced by his elegant handmade equipment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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