diviner

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

When the aging grandmother who grows forgetful and fears she is losing her mind comes to her, Miss Sadie, the diviner, comforts her.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

But from a TV or filmgoer's point of view, Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil are fascinating diviners of human weakness and strategists on how best to exploit them.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

“Shamans were the healers, and the problem solvers or the diviners of their tribes,” said Susan Mokelke, the president of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, an educational nonprofit based in Mill Valley, Calif.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2020

These diviners serve as business consultants and therapists, though loudspeakers near Lama Temple blare weekend warnings about fraud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2017

So where were the diviners of reasonable common ground?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader’s right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë