Thesaurus results for DIVINER

diviner

noun

də-ˈvī-nər

Definition of diviner

as in prophet

one who predicts future events or developments somehow the diviner failed to foresee her own misfortunes with the law

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Recent Examples of diviner While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics. — Essence, 23 Nov. 2025 That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027. — Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025 Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today. — Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diviner

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Noun

The body is expected to arrive later Wednesday in Karbala, a holy city for Shiite Muslims where the Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet, was killed in 680 AD.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
By his spiritual discernment, the prophet Elisha was repeatedly able to warn the king of Israel about ambushes planned by the king of Syria.

— Liesl Ehmke, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026

Definition of prophet

Noun

As the morning storms weaken and move east, forecasters will watch for new storms to redevelop Friday afternoon, mainly from western to central Missouri.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
That could be considered a bright spot in a jobs report that fell short of forecasters’ hiring expectations.

— Rachel Barber, USA Today, 9 July 2026

Definition of forecaster

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But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Centuries before contemporary artists presented a way to pay attention without words, the mystics had searched for it.

— Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of mystic

Noun

Smart investing means listening to all the regional voices, trusting none of them completely and remembering that the Fed is not one oracle but a committee of humans with conflicting spreadsheets and a new boss still learning how to manage them.

— Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
One is that people trust it too much, treating a chatbot like an oracle, a tendency researchers call algorithm appreciation.

— Pawan Jain, The Conversation, 7 July 2026

Definition of oracle

Noun

The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.

— Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.

— Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024

Definition of sibyl

Noun

Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 June 2026
The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.

— Vulture Editors, Vulture, 10 June 2026

Definition of soothsayer

Noun

Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.

— Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026

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