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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 Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026 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

When 70 chickens at a local farm lay 128 eggs in just one night after the arrival of a red helmet biker Emanuel, the event is described as a miracle and Emanuel hailed by the local priest as a prophet of divine powers.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026
Walzer's paradigm case was the Hebrew prophet — Amos, Isaiah — and the point is easily missed.

— Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of prophet

Noun

Rainfall totals could dump 2-4 inches across much of the region including some localized totals of 5 inches, according the the NWS Melbourne forecaster’s discussion.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
Like most mainstream forecasters of the energy transition, the high cost of hydrogen and the lack of policy implementation have led us to revise our outlook.

— Sverre Alvik, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of forecaster

Noun

The prompt becomes the starting point for a work process rather than a one-stop consultation of an oracle.

— Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Cronenberg is right that artists need not create with posterity in mind, but for a contemporary oracle such as Charli, the concerns of the present do merit consideration.

— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 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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