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
In a town hit by drought, young Estrella, a water diviner, works with her father, in charge of water distribution to the community.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
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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
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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
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The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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These notorious mystics from film and television exemplify their corresponding zodiac sign.Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
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Built on Ethereum, UMA (Universal Market Access) is a decentralized oracle.Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The authors of lot oracles came prepared for petitioners’ implicit doubt.Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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That should be hard to pull off in a movie that doesn’t acknowledge the existence of Spider-Man, and yet Venom succeeds where Morbius and Madame Web—Jared Leto’s vampiric superhero and Dakota Johnson’s clairvoyant seer—stumble.James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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