diviner

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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

“I have no plan when I go into the studio,” said Garry Nichols, who has a sideline as a water diviner.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2013

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

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2012

The following day we took a three-hour bus trip to Hammanskraal, a rural ghetto outside Pretoria, there to see what my mother described as the greatest diviner in the country.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane