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as in wonderful
of the very best kind
how about a piece of the most divine apple pie I've ever tasted!
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as in heavenly
of, relating to, or being God
for these divine gifts let us be truly thankful
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as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
the great influence exerted by the Puritan divines in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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as in to anticipate
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 divine
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
28 June 2026
One such interest was the Bible, specifically the Gospels, and whether Jesus was divine.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2026
Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
In Muslim belief, whoever holds a fragment is holding something that connects the earthly world with the divine.
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Iqbal Akhtar,
The Conversation,
25 May 2026
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
24 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.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
From the European cultural point of view there was, here in the Mediterranean, a pragmatic culture which regarded the divine presence as self-evident.
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Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
28 June 2026
One such interest was the Bible, specifically the Gospels, and whether Jesus was divine.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2026
Noun
Often at odds with orthodoxy, this branch of Islam looks at the relationship between the divine and the self through the lens of surrender, to the point where one’s own identity dissolves.
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Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
In Muslim belief, whoever holds a fragment is holding something that connects the earthly world with the divine.
—
Iqbal Akhtar,
The Conversation,
25 May 2026
Verb
Its Orbs are meant to divine the real from the fake.
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Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
24 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divine
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The animals, the cool weather and the wonderful people of this region made for a memorable trip.
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Bat boxes are a wonderful addition to your yard for attracting bats and giving them a safe place to live.
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By the end of the movie, even something as natural as daylight has become suffused with a heavenly glow, and the beads of sweat on a dying body sparkle with a beauty that Emily had never been able to find anywhere else in her tragedy of a life.
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Don't forget your in-flight comfort — this heavenly memory foam travel pillow is discounted to just $10.
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Survivors have fought for a full public account of priests, with San Francisco the only diocese in the state that has not released such a list of clergy abuse offenders.
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Watching from the crowd was Father Taras Naumenko, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, one of Tryzub's team chaplains and a passionate soccer goalie.
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Some fans will have purchased alternative plane tickets and booked extra hotel nights, anticipating a change that never came.
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro is anticipated to be more expensive, potentially by $200, driven by rising memory and storage costs.
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And with such excellent transit, there can be much greater housing density.
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His group stage has been consistently excellent without announcing itself — the kind of contribution that shows up in the table rather than the highlights.
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There are flag sweaters and skate sneakers and prairie skirts; there are Cheyanne moccasins and Mennonite bonnets and the not-quite-holy Yankees baseball cap.
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The devil invades a Georgetown home, and holy men have quite the job to do on a demonic little girl.
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The dynamic duo of Jonda Valentine, an artist and daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, and her longtime friend Christa Suppan, who started as a bartender when Lipstick first opened, share co-ownership of the two bars.
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The street preacher asks if someone could be cited if a transgender person is offended if they are misgendered by another person.
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The survey is an indicator of companies foreseeing good conditions minus those feeling pessimistic.
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To say legislators should have foreseen this result is shooting fish.
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“Divine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divine. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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