divination
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Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The “Harry Potter” team did not need a divination expert to know its cast would encounter some “unpleasant and aggressive behavior.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
From precolonial Mexico we discover obsidian mirrors used for divination in Mayan and Aztec ceremonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Ancestral divination is imperative in order to get through to that, because they’re always there watching.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
“Some readers do not like other people touching their cards,” Marco explains, recalling details from his divination lessons as he gently lifts the deck.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Muzi, a Taoist monk and sailmaker, joins the crew partway through the novel and guides the captain using divinations from the “I Ching,” something which the rest of the crew finds understandably strange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026
Mercury in retrograde was believed to impede such endeavors, as well as these astrologers’ divinations.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023
Each village had several shamans, who specialized in various divinations, healings and funeral rites.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
This is always a busy time at the Club as we take turns peering into a fresh batch of election results and sharing our divinations.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
Yet in spite of his elegant indifference, he could not help being interested; and some of his divinations come very near to the truth.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
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The Alchemist
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The Night Circus
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