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
In a town hit by drought, young Estrella, a water diviner, works with her father, in charge of water distribution to the community.
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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
There is a sense that Black women are diviners of culture.
—Attica Locke, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
The opon ifa, or divination tray, is the central instrument used by the diviner or priest in the complex Yoruba ritual of divination, whose purpose is making decisions for ceremonial sacrifices and seeking solutions to serious spiritual problems through the help of ancestors and deities.
—NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
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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
There is a sense that Black women are diviners of culture.
—Attica Locke, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
The opon ifa, or divination tray, is the central instrument used by the diviner or priest in the complex Yoruba ritual of divination, whose purpose is making decisions for ceremonial sacrifices and seeking solutions to serious spiritual problems through the help of ancestors and deities.
—NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
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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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The witches act as dancers and backup singers as well as prophets.Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2024
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The mystics were not just these people having these strange extreme experiences.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
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The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling.Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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In 2021, researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence released an AI model, Delphi, named after the ancient Greek religious oracle.Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
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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 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.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Through an inexplicable turn of events, Talbot slays a wolf with an antique silver cane; a soothsayer later informs him that the victim is, in fact, her transformed son.EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 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 22 Dec. 2024.
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