divine
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Shylock’s pound of flesh invokes this divine commandment, which would have been familiar to everyone in early modern Europe as governments began using bonds as financial instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 13, 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 β Sep. 29, 2026
They regarded it as reflecting a perfect divine system.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
For Antigone this is an imposition of political power over divine law, and she puts her life on the line to uphold her obligation to her family and faith.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 11, 2026
“Sometimes,” Auster continued cheerfully, “mortals recognize our divine blood. They will say, That horse runs like the wind. And for good reason. Like the fastest stallions, the venti are our children!”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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 β Jul. 3, 2022
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 β Nov. 19, 2016
Puritan divines made explicit links between the washing of the physical body in water and that of the spirit in baptism.
From Washington Post β Jan. 5, 2016
“But the old place is finished,” Mr Stockton divines, “and it’s never coming back.”
From Economist β 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 β Feb. 3, 2024
Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.
From Washington Post β Mar. 30, 2020
The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.
From New York Times β Sep. 2, 2012
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 β Jan. 19, 2011
“You will show the diviner some respect, thief.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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 β Feb. 26, 2010
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
That is not the word; he is the divinest madman!
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
To him poetry was the divinest of the arts.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Thou dost dwell here, I know, divinest Joy: But they who build thy towers fair and strong, Of all that toil, feel most of care and wrong.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
Yet Oldham divined a prohibition from the penumbras of an 1872 statute.
From Slate β Jul. 10, 2025
The challenge for those affected is that the precise position of US foreign policy is having to be divined.
From BBC β Feb. 15, 2025
The status of their romance was divined through the way the nut burned.
From Salon β 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 β Apr. 19, 2023
All of this she had through the painful years divined.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Having said that, it's only two races into the season, so divining any clear pattern would be premature.
From BBC β 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 β 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 β 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 β Jul. 16, 2025
As I walked through the divining parlor, I was hopeful that maybe I’d mostly worked off my debt.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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