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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

Commune with the spirits, the diviner had said.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

“In 2020, specifically, there was general agreement that masses flocked to astrology,” astrologer Julia Kelley said, referring to her community of celestial diviners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

But from a TV or filmgoer's point of view, Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil are fascinating diviners of human weakness and strategists on how best to exploit them.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

In one nook you’ll see “Arachnomancy,” a deck of tarot cards printed with ink made from particulate matter that pays tribute to the spider diviners of Cameroon.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

In ancient China, hermits were shamans, herbalists and diviners.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2017

It is a story of a young Hungarian woman who comes from a family of diviners.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool