divine
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They saw messages from the divine in thunder and lightning, bird flight and the entrails of sacrificed animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
There have been eight female emperors on the Chrysanthemum Throne in Japan's imperial family, whose divine status was renounced after World War II.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Another clear argument against divine design is the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which takes a course that simply makes no sense to invent.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
This would “place us openly under the divine protection,” he noted.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
One can only imagine the shock and then the exhilaration when it became obvious that the boulder was a huge statue of the divine Greek hero Hercules.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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
The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2012
By the time Cass, a diviner who’s had disturbing visions before, returns with a policeman a second time, she has started to doubt what she saw.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2011
“Either that woman’s a diviner or she’s got relatives in the fairy kingdom she isn’t telling me about.”
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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
Oft have I dreamed of Thee! whose glorious name Who knows not, knows not man's divinest lore:11 And now I view thee, 'tis, alas! with shame That I in feeblest accents must adore.
From Poems on Travel by Various
God's divinest burneth plain Through the crystal diaphane Of our loves that love you.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Obedience doth please The Ruler of this Realm far more than smell Of incense or divinest harmonies.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
O Friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee!
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
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
Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 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
And you might say I divined the rest.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
As I walked through the divining parlor, I was hopeful that maybe I’d mostly worked off my debt.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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