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adjective

Definition of diviningnext
as in predicting

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divining

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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
  • As animals – human or otherwise – navigate the unpredictability of life, anticipating positive experiences helps drive a persistence to keep searching for life’s rewards.
    Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the soccer foundation is still working with DSM on a development agreement for the site but is not anticipating additional cash contributions from the city, Jansen said.
    Jason Clayworth, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of anticipating
Verb
  • Further study showed that the computer model was more than 90 percent accurate in predicting how a real fly’s brain would respond.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Economists had been predicting payroll growth of 140-150,000 jobs; instead, payrolls rose by 254,000.
    Harry Holzer, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of predicting
Adjective
  • The mission: to break some codes and save an old man on a wondrous island.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The simple truth is that people drive the big, wondrous economic leaps, and there’s a great deal more investment in people when the inputs to progress decline in cost.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of wondrous
Noun
  • Does Nashawaty, in his soothsaying capacity, even have the right decade?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • But it was powered by profound public discontent with Argentina’s sclerotic status quo, especially from a generation of younger voters who have seen little relief from years of endemic fiscal crisis and debt, and have no more patience for the appeals and soothsaying of the establishment.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
Definition of soothsaying
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