diviner

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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

TULSA, Okla. — The landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is a diviner of places, a city whisperer.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2018

By the time Cass, a diviner who’s had disturbing visions before, returns with a policeman a second time, she has started to doubt what she saw.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2011

“Even though that question is to test me,” the diviner said, making me start, “to set your mind at ease, I’ll answer it. But remember this: I can read all your thoughts.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane