as in anticipated
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 divined
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
The internet is full of polls that have divined, by soliciting votes from film critics and filmmakers, what are ostensibly the greatest movies of all time.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
The Etruscan civilization 2,400 years ago in ancient Italy, experts say, believed the future could be divined using chickens, which were said to embody magical qualities.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
The internet is full of polls that have divined, by soliciting votes from film critics and filmmakers, what are ostensibly the greatest movies of all time.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
The Etruscan civilization 2,400 years ago in ancient Italy, experts say, believed the future could be divined using chickens, which were said to embody magical qualities.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for divined
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Faced with the higher costs now anticipated for the project, the mayor’s administration first plans to ask county commissioners for an additional $71 million to cover renovation costs, according to Edwards, chief administrative officer under Levine Cava.—
Douglas Hanks
April 8,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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It is anticipated that the changes stemming from the TAC discussions will leave the race action largely unaltered.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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He's even designed to take a fall without sustaining serious damage, so Imagineers foresaw the inevitable when releasing an animatronic out into the busy park environment.—
Christopher Edwards,
PEOPLE,
31 Mar. 2026
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In 1685, Giovanni Borelli, the Italian physicist, foresaw a world where machines driven by pulleys could ape the actions of animals.—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Divined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divined. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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