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adjective

Definition of diviningnext
as in predicting

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noun

as in divination

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divining

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verb

present participle of divine
as in anticipating
to realize or know about beforehand it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him

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  1. divination
  2. anticipating
  3. predicting
  4. wondrous
  5. soothsaying
Noun
  • Advertisement Judging from the torrent of polling divinations, spirited debate and reportage dedicated to the potential ballot choices of our sons, brothers, husbands and uncles, women’s voting trends must be stagnant or just simpler, right?
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • So yellow is yellow was was air and Lilia divination trial, and orange was Alice in the fire trial.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of divination
Verb
  • Despite this drop, the proportion of Americans anticipating an economic downturn over the next year remained steady.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The bulk of that tension comes from a haunted wooden man that remains onscreen and barely ever moves—leaving the audience painfully stuck anticipating the moment when the nightmarish figure will spring to life.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of anticipating
Verb
  • The National Weather Service is predicting above-average temperatures for the 2024-2025 winter season after the Louisville area saw its ninth warmest winter in 2023.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024
  • After today, the National Weather Service in Gaylord is predicting a warmer Christmas this year.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of predicting
Adjective
  • Bridging her pioneering work with the modern influences all around us (yes, even in Taylor Swift concerts), this wondrous doc is most thrilling as an archival endeavor of all that Fuller created and inspired.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • At his best, my friend has an incredible talent for bringing people and ideas together and transforming them into something wondrous and valuable.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of wondrous
Noun
  • It’s told in flashback to Simba and Nala’s daughter, Kiara, by the soothsaying mandrill Rafiki, with the meerkat Timon and the warthog Pumbaa goofing on the sidelines.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Does Nashawaty, in his soothsaying capacity, even have the right decade?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Definition of soothsaying
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