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Recent Examples of diviner 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 Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 The diviner confirms the man’s fears: two women have bewitched his wife. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for diviner
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Noun
  • His tenure was short-lived, however: within a year, he was declared a sinner and imprisoned by another Acholi prophet: Joseph Kony.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
  • He is considered a prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in the Exodus.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps the mystics and statistics were waiting for the right moment.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Maybe investors know something that the administration’s oddball collection of economic ideologues and mystics don’t understand.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sandra Tsing Loh served as the unrehearsed actor on opening night, following the script’s instructions and ultimately presiding over an evening of charades dreamed up in advance by an oracle.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
  • This geospatial oracle system can operate even if GPS satellites or centralized mapping servers go down.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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
  • Given that the upcoming Hunter Biden trial for tax felonies may have included testimony about how and when the presidential son shared fees from questionable foreign sources with his father, Mason could've had a side gig as a soothsayer.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Rather than the typical market outlook, fraught with all the dangers of being a soothsayer, this outlook will endeavor to take a journey like Lewis Carroll’s Alice to find some reality in markets that can sometimes seem unreal or irrational.
    Bill Stone, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The seer narrowed down the location to a place near or over a garage in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or the Bronx.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
  • Machar has long regarded himself as destined for the presidency, citing a prophecy years ago by a seer from his ethnic group.
    Cara Anna, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025

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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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