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.
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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
The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
—Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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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
The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
—Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
Noun
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The most savvy prophet of this new reality may be Markiplier himself.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
31 May 2026
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Surely, being a prophet destined to die on the cross would be a painful vocation, and the film refuses to look away from this pain.—
Isaac Butler,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
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Hurricane center forecasters said in an early morning June 4 advisory Amanda was located about 1,500 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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With many newcomers and no major South Florida storm since Irma in 2017, forecasters worry about complacency.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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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
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The mystics were also attuned to the limits of language.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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There’s a moment inside Nick Doyle’s new show at Perrotin when his AI oracle Ava stops feeling like a gimmick and starts sounding uncomfortably familiar.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
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This is a film steeped in class-consciousness with the hyper-articulate Patrick serving double duty as an oracle.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
20 May 2026
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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
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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
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Just beyond the respectable edges of Paris, among the soothsayers and strongmen, works Suzanne (Anaïs Demoustier).—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
12 May 2026
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If nothing else, Kidman should rally the rest of her Big Little Lies castmates as a roving band of blonde soothsayers and harbingers of eternal sleep.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2026
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Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.—
Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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Every now and again, Monica, as much savvy therapist as all-knowing seer, interrupts Jean’s first-person account to offer guidance.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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