divine
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Many churches believe God has a divine plan for the end of everything.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Sadhguru's "sacred walks", organised by his Isha Foundation, promised a journey to a place "of divine connection, where the veil between the physical and spiritual is thin".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
But divine entities stopped intervening in man’s affairs long ago; besides, I had the answer drawn and nocked since I’d walked out of the theater days before.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
For observant Jews, the Sabbath, or Shabbos, isn’t a wellness experiment; it’s a divine commandment that forms a cultural backbone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The Odyssey speaks of “the divine for which all men long,” and hundreds of years later Aristotle wrote, “Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Brook was one of those rare divines, to borrow Portia’s metaphor from “The Merchant of Venice,” who followed his own instructions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
The tech giant is understandably reluctant to share the secrets of how it divines such closely held data, though clearly it has special powers to tap into the hive mind of the greater Internet.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2015
If there was ever a time we can start to turn this thing around it’s now Back at Waikeria, Neil Campbell divines a pivotal moment.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
“But the old place is finished,” Mr Stockton divines, “and it’s never coming back.”
From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015
The two divines wore tunics “the color of the men of light,” as Marcos called the color yellow.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2012
“If I cure you, will you stop doing that?” the diviner asked.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
This belief was revived during the Renaissance, leading Milton to exclaim, in his poem “Il Penseroso”: “Hail divinest Melancholy/Whose saintly visage is too bright/To hit the sense of human sight.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010
They travel on from height to height, In splendour to diffuse The truth that earth's divinest light Hath no abiding hues.
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
The water was of that divinest temperature so that when he stopped still it was lovely, but when he moved he almost screamed with the rapturous heat of it.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
I should have said "divinest of all creatures."
From A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce by John Kendrick Bangs
“Worthy father of Lady Hebron, my revered wife,” said Tutmosis, “from thy bearing I see that thou divinest the subject of which I wish to speak.”
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Alexander Glovatski
Meanwhile, Alex Fynn, an author and football consultant, divined that match-going fans would be seen by clubs as "incidental".
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Standard analysis divined from the usual awards season augury skews in favor of Anderson and “One Battle,” too.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
For example, Roman priests divined the will of the gods by examining a sacrificed animal’s entrails, a custom adopted from the Etruscans.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
In a Substack post on Wednesday, Basmajian identifies the most reliable sectors with predictive value for divining future economic activity.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
This laudable notion of divining true skill should be extended to teachers to mitigate the oh-so-tempting use of AI in lesson plans, discussions, projects and tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
The most-watched broadcast TV show of the recently ended 2024-2025 season, according to Nielsen, is “Tracker,” which is highly entertaining, but not a significant source for divining meaning about America’s political and cultural health.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
Diane, 77, had seen Rose before and was impressed by her readings, divining certain aspects of her life that Rose could not have known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Clara realized that that was why none of her infallible methods of divining had worked.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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