Thesaurus results for DIVINED

divined

verb

past tense of divine

as in anticipated

to realize or know about beforehand it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him

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Recent Examples of divined Part of what has led us into this state of impasse is precisely the generations of confident, optimistic thinking that claims to have divined the future. —

Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 My lack of tact and legibility is divined. —

Morgan Parker, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 For no other game will there be as much divined as there is after the first one, which accounts for just more than one half of 1% of the Major League Baseball season. —

Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026 The internet is full of polls that have divined, by soliciting votes from film critics and filmmakers, what are ostensibly the greatest movies of all time. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Feb. 2026 The Etruscan civilization 2,400 years ago in ancient Italy, experts say, believed the future could be divined using chickens, which were said to embody magical qualities. —

Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025 That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025

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Rarely has a 0-0 draw at a World Cup been so eagerly anticipated… and then celebrated.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 16 June 2026
The Newsom administration has attempted creative efforts to shrink CDCR’s budget, such as hiring outside consultants to find operations efficiencies, but those endeavors have resulted in less savings than initially anticipated.

— William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026