divine

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Its definition of "allurement" includes employment, free education at a religious institution, a promise of marriage, a "better lifestyle" and "divine healing".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

They regarded it as reflecting a perfect divine system.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

As its small cast obsesses over a fabled alien encounter and seems willing to stop at nothing to find release in a divine being, be careful, “The Pineapple” argues, of the personal Eden you seek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

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

He hears the story of Lancelot and divines his own magic, protective spear.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 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

“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

I guessed I’d better fess up about the diviner, since that cat was out of the bag anyway.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

Obedience doth please The Ruler of this Realm far more than smell Of incense or divinest harmonies.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

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

Their Madonnas, Annunciations, Nativities and the like, are the sculptural counterpart to Angelico's divinest paintings, though never quite attaining to his spiritual insight and supra-sensible gaze upon life.

From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

He will never go so far that he will not come back to sing and talk of these, his earliest and divinest loves.

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

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 into the mix 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

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

Having said that, it's only two races into the season, so divining any clear pattern would be premature.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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

After introduction ceremonies, my mother, the diviner and I went to a hut, where we sat on mats on the floor, opposite the diviner, as she arranged her divining bones and shells.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane