as in prophet
one who predicts future events or developments
somehow the diviner failed to foresee her own misfortunes with the law
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Recent Examples of diviner
The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
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Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
The diviner confirms the man’s fears: two women have bewitched his wife.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
The diviner confirms the man’s fears: two women have bewitched his wife.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
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On the sublime 12-inch version—dub itself being a kind of ghost music—Rico Rodriguez takes his long solo as if standing atop a prophet’s peak, overlooking a city in flames.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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During this time, the Nation of Islam’s theology included the idea that God came embodied in the person of Fard Muhammad, and that Elijah Muhammad was his prophet.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Maybe investors know something that the administration’s oddball collection of economic ideologues and mystics don’t understand.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
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For her part, af Klint identified more as a mystic than as an artist, at times claiming to channel the astral plane with her work.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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So Far The village oracle cursed Kratos by literally bonding the ashes of his deceased family to his body, earning him the Ghost of Sparta nickname for his ghostly white visage.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2025
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Following a warning from an oracle, Atalanta, known for her swift running pace, proclaimed that a potential suitor must beat her in a footrace, and that losers be killed.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.—
Nancy Princenthal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2024
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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
14 Oct. 2020
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Given that the upcoming Hunter Biden trial for tax felonies may have included testimony about how and when the presidential son shared fees from questionable foreign sources with his father, Mason could've had a side gig as a soothsayer.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2024
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Rather than the typical market outlook, fraught with all the dangers of being a soothsayer, this outlook will endeavor to take a journey like Lewis Carroll’s Alice to find some reality in markets that can sometimes seem unreal or irrational.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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The bad news, according to her seer (Big Freedia), is that someone has cursed AP (played by Sriram).—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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The finale will also reveal who is the seer, a new twist where the winner of last week's mission will have the ability to see whether a player of their choice is a faithful or traitor.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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