diviner

In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Slate’s judicial diviner Mark Joseph Stern joins to talk about a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on abortion that really took both text and history and human rights seriously.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2024

Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

“I have no plan when I go into the studio,” said Garry Nichols, who has a sideline as a water diviner.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013

The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2012

Naturally, with my Western education, I found such an explanation preposterous; I decided to “test” the diviner.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

“In 2020, specifically, there was general agreement that masses flocked to astrology,” astrologer Julia Kelley said, referring to her community of celestial diviners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

But from a TV or filmgoer's point of view, Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil are fascinating diviners of human weakness and strategists on how best to exploit them.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

Born with snow white hair and deep brown skin in the imaginary country of Orïsha, young diviners morph into mighty, magic-wielding maji, or magicians, at 13.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018

So where were the diviners of reasonable common ground?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

She tells them she is from a family of diviners, a people who read the signs of land and water.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool