as in predicting
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as in divination
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as in anticipating
to realize or know about beforehand
it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him
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Recent Examples of divining
Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
In 1962, Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for divining the structure of DNA — key to understanding how genetic material works.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
Astronauts could, in principle, descend into the treacherously dark and cold craters to look for themselves, but most of this water divining will be conducting by robots.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
Don’t assume all assets are equal When divorcing spouses are deciding how to divvy up assets, a financial adviser can play a crucial role in divining what different assets are actually worth.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
In 1962, Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for divining the structure of DNA — key to understanding how genetic material works.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for divining
Noun
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Throughout history, dice have been used for many different things, including important decision-making or even divination, such as ancient Roman belief that gods controlled the outcomes of dice.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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Soon after, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, published the first book on tarot divination and created a deck explicitly designed for fortune-telling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Return on Tangible Common Equity (ROTCE) increased nicely, managing to edge out expectations as the bank closed out the quarter with a higher level of loans and deposits than the Street was anticipating.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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The letter came a day before California’s air regulators were set to release draft updates to the Cap-and-Invest program, with stakeholders anticipating additional changes to the initial January updates.—
Chaewon Chung
April 13,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Powell has bristled at Warsh’s critiques Warsh has also called for the Fed to use new models, a potential reference to bringing new technologies and big data into the Fed’s forecasting process.—
Steve Liesman,Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Last week at Kingpins Amsterdam, Ana Paula Alves, founder of the trend forecasting firm Be Disobedient, explained how the walls are breaking down even further.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The survey is an indicator of companies foreseeing good conditions minus those feeling pessimistic.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Still, many business heads are upbeat, foreseeing a sense of continuity and a measure of economic reassurance and certainty ahead.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With the 2025 college football season on the horizon, months of previewing and predicting soon will be in the rearview mirror.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Rhea has a wondrous laugh, which cracks the air like a lightning bolt of joy.—
Britt Lower,
Time,
15 Apr. 2026
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The world of metal will be a less wondrous place without Spirit Adrift, which Garrett is retiring after the release of the band’s sixth album, Infinite Illumination.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
14 Apr. 2026
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Yet another closed the gap between doomsday soothsaying, beautiful love songs, the buzzing of broken refrigerators, and the august majesty of whales.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
16 Dec. 2025
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As Pete says, juries almost literally live on another planet, being sequestered from the likes of us and our soothsaying.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Thoughts of all the beautiful, mundane, familiar things that make life so sweet had turned sour in my ominous fortune-telling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Divining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divining. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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