divinely

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“Abdulmalik al-Houthi sees himself as a divinely chosen leader,” said Mohammed al-Basha, a U.S.-based analyst focused on Yemen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when judges dubbed him a "divinely gifted story-teller".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

And there have been hints before that Johnson sees his position as divinely inspired, even if he never previously compared himself with the Hebrew Bible’s most important prophet.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2023

With their followers losing faith, Jeff and Shaleia needed a way to keep them in the labyrinth; hence, a new mythology legitimizing their supposedly divinely mandated matchmaking.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2023

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking