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Back in Malang, resident Ahmad Saifuddin joined others in praying for divine intervention.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the east and some other parts, as well as among Hindus in Bangladesh, the festival sees devotees worshipping the divine feminine power with Durga Puja celebrations.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

As a consequence, it is less easy to divine what they want—or what they’re likely to want in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

They regarded it as reflecting a perfect divine system.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

She followed them, and as she crossed the threshold to the hall where the mother sat holding her young son, a divine radiance filled the doorway and awe fell upon Metaneira.

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

It’s about moving with his wife and young sons to Lyon, where he works in restaurant kitchens and divines the secrets of French cuisine.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2020

But it never does quite marry the two divines.

From Economist ● May 24, 2018

Adams talks a lot about “systemising”, the quintessentially autistic way in which he divines patterns in the world, often immersing himself in them.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2016

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

There is also Augure, a diviner who can sense the future, and from the start the omens look forbidding for the newlyweds.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

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

Besides, there were many events that the diviner mentioned that even my mother knew nothing about.

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 Elegy is the expression in divinest poetry of the best conceptions of a noble soul upon the most serious topic on which human thought can dwell.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

Most of all his pen produced, of divinest poetry, of gravest philosophy, of grandest thought, was minted into words and inscribed in this simple apartment.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

It is little to him who is cutting his marble to the divinest form, that the whole city reeks with grime and smoke, and all its outlines are misshapen and ugly.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025

The challenge for those affected is that the precise position of US foreign policy is having to be divined.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

The status of their romance was divined through the way the nut burned.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

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

Cortes divined the discontent beneath the Alliance’s martial display and would later benefit from it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Others have turned toward astrology, a less scientific but increasingly popular way of divining meaning from the night sky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

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

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

They are similar to divining rods some claim can be used to find water, and that UK water companies have used in the past to search for underground pipes.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024

But divining the chunks that have been mastered by a typical reader requires a gift of clairvoyance with which few of us are blessed.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker