diviner

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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

The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2012

Finally, the leader scratched his chin—so spirits itched?—and gestured at the diviner standing nearby.

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