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Recent Examples of diviner In a town hit by drought, young Estrella, a water diviner, works with her father, in charge of water distribution to the community. Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023 For shrine pieces or diviner pieces, by placing them on an altar in the space resembling a diviner’s structure, the viewer can better imagine placing an offering on a shrine, or sitting with a diviner for a consultation. San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023 There is a sense that Black women are diviners of culture. Attica Locke, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023 The opon ifa, or divination tray, is the central instrument used by the diviner or priest in the complex Yoruba ritual of divination, whose purpose is making decisions for ceremonial sacrifices and seeking solutions to serious spiritual problems through the help of ancestors and deities. NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020 See all Example Sentences for diviner 
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Noun
  • In the end, the durability of their partnership may depend on Musk’s motives: What drove him to become a MAGA prophet in the first place?
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Another about Harlan arguing with Ray Bradbury (America’s sweetest doomsday prophet) about Walt Disney and America and capitalism — the two of them shouting themselves hoarse for hours because neither would give up an inch of rhetorical ground.
    Jason Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • These notorious mystics from film and television exemplify their corresponding zodiac sign.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Her presence both as an oracle and a compassionate spiritual adviser has filled a void within the reality show that desperately needed filling, as its sometimes messy and impulsive cast members are not exactly known for considering the future when making decisions in the present.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Built on Ethereum, UMA (Universal Market Access) is a decentralized oracle.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • Through an inexplicable turn of events, Talbot slays a wolf with an antique silver cane; a soothsayer later informs him that the victim is, in fact, her transformed son.
    EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024

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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.

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