diviner

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

The following day we took a three-hour bus trip to Hammanskraal, a rural ghetto outside Pretoria, there to see what my mother described as the greatest diviner in the country.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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 ancient China, hermits were shamans, herbalists and diviners.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2017

These diviners serve as business consultants and therapists, though loudspeakers near Lama Temple blare weekend warnings about fraud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2017

So where were the diviners of reasonable common ground?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

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

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool