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as in wonderful
of the very best kind
how about a piece of the most divine apple pie I've ever tasted!
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as in heavenly
of, relating to, or being God
for these divine gifts let us be truly thankful
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as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
the great influence exerted by the Puritan divines in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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as in to anticipate
to realize or know about beforehand
it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him
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Recent Examples of divine
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
Beauty, then, arises from the pain and struggle of experiencing oneself as a site of divine truancy, and ugly is that which pretends to be directly equivalent to the soul, God, etc.
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Esther Yi,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
Iqbal Akhtar,
The Conversation,
25 May 2026
The biblical story tells of a human effort to build a city putting humanity on par with the divine.
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Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
For no other game will there be as much divined as there is after the first one, which accounts for just more than one half of 1% of the Major League Baseball season.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
At the time, many people saw disasters mainly as acts of divine punishment.
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Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
Beauty, then, arises from the pain and struggle of experiencing oneself as a site of divine truancy, and ugly is that which pretends to be directly equivalent to the soul, God, etc.
—
Esther Yi,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
Noun
In Muslim belief, whoever holds a fragment is holding something that connects the earthly world with the divine.
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Iqbal Akhtar,
The Conversation,
25 May 2026
The biblical story tells of a human effort to build a city putting humanity on par with the divine.
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Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
Verb
Its Orbs are meant to divine the real from the fake.
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Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
For no other game will there be as much divined as there is after the first one, which accounts for just more than one half of 1% of the Major League Baseball season.
—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divine
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So many wonderful dinners with friends and nights out on the town.
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Soccer – football in much of the world – has a long and wonderful tradition of singing, whether that be in praise of their favorite players, mocking opponents (sometimes, brutally so) or simply urging their team forward.
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Don’t even pay much attention to the heavenly pop melody.
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These heavenly squares are then baked in the oven until golden, crispy brown.
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Watching from the crowd was Father Taras Naumenko, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, one of Tryzub's team chaplains and a passionate soccer goalie.
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Morelia is named after José María Morelos, a revolutionary priest and key leader of the Mexican War of Independence.
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But, by 2030, AI’s intelligence per watt (to reference a new metric recently introduced by Chris Re and colleagues at Stanford) will be dramatically higher, to a degree that few today are anticipating or have yet internalized.
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And traders have consistently anticipated key economic data points, like the rate of US inflation and interest rate decisions from the Federal Reserve.
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Turkey evened it in the 10th minute with an excellent two-man game from Baris Alper Yilmaz and Güler, the 21-year-old Real Madrid rising star.
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The nearby town of Dolores makes an excellent home base.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attacks a response to Russia’s relentless nightly bombardment, which on Monday included Kyiv’s oldest and holiest church complex.
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And for the love of all things holy, do not store food in your tent.
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She was born into slavery in the North and later won her freedom, becoming an acclaimed speaker, preacher and activist.
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According to the Daily Mail report, the preacher and Key exchanged a series of text messages in the spring of 2026 that his wife eventually read.
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Alas, the actor did not foresee his countrymen losing to Morocco 1-0 on June 19, but took the L in stride.
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The latter, on a break that stretched tired German legs, captured the story of a footballing mismatch few had foreseen.
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“Divine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divine. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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