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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 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

And Christopher Lee, as the blind prophet Tiresias, and Irene Papas, as Odysseus’ mother, add an air of sophistication to the whole affair.

— Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Moses received the Torah from Sinai, and handed it down to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets delivered it to the men of the Great Synagogue.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026

Definition of prophet

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Wind gusts near 30 mph are possible Wednesday, accompanied by cooler temperatures that will drop lows to around 70 degrees through early next week, forecasters say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
Storm surges up to 3 feet (1 meter) were possible in Louisiana and Alabama, forecasters said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 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

Initially, the script, for want of a better word, was my bible, my oracle.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 22 July 2026
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

Definition of oracle

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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
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

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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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