divination
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Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
A bewitching survey looks at the unexpected, centuries-old genesis of the divination cards, and the ways they endured and changed in the modern era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Love yourself by letting go of what was, thankfully, never ours to control in the first place — the divine divination of love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Ancestral divination is imperative in order to get through to that, because they’re always there watching.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
They are reputed to be well versed in magical healing, divination, archery and astronomy.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
Muzi, a Taoist monk and sailmaker, joins the crew partway through the novel and guides the captain using divinations from the “I Ching,” something which the rest of the crew finds understandably strange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026
Mercury in retrograde was believed to impede such endeavors, as well as these astrologers’ divinations.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023
Each village had several shamans, who specialized in various divinations, healings and funeral rites.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
This is always a busy time at the Club as we take turns peering into a fresh batch of election results and sharing our divinations.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
And as such it became liable to abuse; thus Hosea rebukes the chosen people for practising similar divinations.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Vocabulary lists containing divination
The Alchemist
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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The Night Circus
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