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
A bewitching survey looks at the unexpected, centuries-old genesis of the divination cards, and the ways they endured and changed in the modern era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The shamans, like the one seen in “Squid Game,” usually are mediators to the spirit world using divination or other rituals.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
Ancestral divination is imperative in order to get through to that, because they’re always there watching.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
He learned in this way the art of divination as no one ever had, and he became a famous soothsayer.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
Often these divinations run into rhyme, as:— "Dream of God at midnight dim, And by day you'll follow Him."
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
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The Alchemist
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