How to Use divination in a Sentence
divination
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The divination practice centers around four main lines on your palm: the heart line, the fate line, the head line, and the life line.
—Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 31 May 2023
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His master cut up Luc's body and sold the parts for divination.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2022
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Tea leaves are also used as a divination tool to explore the past, present, and future.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 7 May 2018
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Tarot as a tool of divination is meant to give clarity to the person being read for.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
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Tarot is a form of divination that uses a deck of playing cards to give us a sense of direction.
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2021
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The universe is granting you a gift for divination practices that can draw out your own hidden thoughts.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
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The newcomers go for spells, crystals and forms of divination such as tarot cards, said Dulcis.
—Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2019
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However, the cards didn’t become tools of divination until at least the 1800s.
—Alegría Adedeji, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2021
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Some say tarot was simply a card game like bridge or poker; others say the cards were always used for divination.
—Jane Stern, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018
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But to get a better sense of the album’s divination of modern trends, Billboard did flip over several of those rocks.
—Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
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The way people have read tarot has evolved over centuries, but many believe them to be a tool for divination or looking into the unknown.
—Erica Euse, Teen Vogue, 27 Dec. 2018
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For those who may not be familiar with the practice, tarot is a form of divination that uses a deck of cards to provide us with a sense of direction.
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2023
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They are still used today in the art of divination and continue to be worn as talismans in different parts of the world to bring good fortune.
—Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 6 June 2021
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The opacity of the process can sometimes make Zeidman’s role seem like divination.
—Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
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In the process of divination, the priest places a powder called iyerosun over the tray and draws it into nine sections, each representing an ancient.
—NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
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But all of the props, vintage occult books and divination tools have value, probably for someone on your list.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
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Prints are inspired by divination tools, such as seashells and a pencil sharpener.
—Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 27 June 2022
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Inside the dough, there is a piece of rolled or folded piece of paper with a human character trait that is supposed to reveal a divination of sorts.
—NBC News, 25 Jan. 2020
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Kiley Mann was 10 when she was gifted her first set of runes, a Nordic divination tool, which sparked a lifelong journey into witchcraft.
—Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
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In the fourth century ad, the Church banned every form of divination or practice that involved reading the future in any way, because only God could know it.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
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Like me, Dore uses tarot not as a form of fortunetelling or divination but as a way to better understand ourselves and live in alignment with our values.
—Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
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Short of divination, something evidently was in the air in the 1850s that Whitman captured and Lincoln at least appeared to embody.
—Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
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Finney turned to her godmother, a priestess of Ifa, a religion of the Yoruba people of western Africa and system of divination, to teach her about mediumship.
—Tatiana Boncompagni, Marie Claire, 7 June 2021
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Something has happened—the live capture of a personality, if not a soul—but it was engendered by a job, not by a divination.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
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For others, dispelling the negative stereotypes of divination has become a tool of self-healing during a time of loss and trauma.
—Stephanie Long, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2021
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For Scottsdale resident Michelle Hall, 41, tarot is her divination tool.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
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Further suggestions include the cup formations being used in some way for divination; or for the sorting and storage of pearls; or as systems to compute the time and tides.
—Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 22 Nov. 2021
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The report also did not specify which divination practices were the most common, but tarot is certainly not the only one.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
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Representations of dragons are etched into divination inscriptions and reflected in the shape of ritual bronze vessels unearthed in Anyang, the capital of the Shang dynasty.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
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The speculative practices—the financial and cultural forecasting—on which Asher and Whitney have staked their futures would be considered occult forms of divination were white people not the ones engaging in them.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
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