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 confirms the man’s fears: two women have bewitched his wife.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
But these abstractions, the aggregate flow of goods and services (in the latter case, specialists such as doctors and diviners), had to be made concrete in the concepts that these people understood.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2010
In a town hit by drought, young Estrella, a water diviner, works with her father, in charge of water distribution to the community.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
For shrine pieces or diviner pieces, by placing them on an altar in the space resembling a diviner’s structure, the viewer can better imagine placing an offering on a shrine, or sitting with a diviner for a consultation.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
But these abstractions, the aggregate flow of goods and services (in the latter case, specialists such as doctors and diviners), had to be made concrete in the concepts that these people understood.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2010
In a town hit by drought, young Estrella, a water diviner, works with her father, in charge of water distribution to the community.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
For shrine pieces or diviner pieces, by placing them on an altar in the space resembling a diviner’s structure, the viewer can better imagine placing an offering on a shrine, or sitting with a diviner for a consultation.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
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The film portrays Dylan as a prophet bringing independence and idiosyncrasy to a world of rule-enforcers and followers.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2024
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The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Elsewhere, this gentle-seeming New Age mystic has praised Ion Antonescu, the Romanian wartime dictator who conspired with Hitler and was sentenced to death for war crimes, including his role in the Romanian Holocaust.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Perhaps only literary sci-fi oracles like him, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury could conceive of a future in which the past returns to both inform and challenge our understanding of reality.Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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But other, less helpful oracles have the opposite effect.Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 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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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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Wall Street’s soothsayers expect another year of double-digit gains after the S&P 500 posted back-to-back advances of over 20% in 2023 and 2024.Royce Branning, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024
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All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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