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
While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.
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Essence,
23 Nov. 2025
That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
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Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today.
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Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Essence,
23 Nov. 2025
That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today.
—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
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He has been accused by other Christian groups as a false prophet or a cult leader.
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Seven Mountains has brought the language of spiritual warfare and demon-fighting into the mainstream of evangelicalism, through a network of pastors who view themselves as prophets and apostles engaged in a battle against evil secular forces.
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Though still somewhat shaky, shipping confidence in transiting the vital strait is rising rapidly, leading forecasters to warn of an impending oil glut; Citi predicts prices could fall to as low as $60 a barrel by the end of the year.
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In Boston, forecasters said the temperatures July 3 will feel like 100 to 110 degrees, and 95 to 100 degrees on July 4.
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But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.
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The novel works well as a story about sisters and sisterhood, toxic relationships, payback, herbs and a touch of the mystic.
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The loudest of those skeptics still get treated as oracles, even as the downside bets behind them quietly decay toward nothing.
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Back in the ’90s, videos about computer chips and global warming serve as oracles.
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Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.
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The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.
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Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
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Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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