How to Use diviner in a Sentence

diviner

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  • Diviners foretold of the event.
  • But then, Poppy has long been a diviner of the zeitgeist.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • To interpret the bones, diviners would heat them until cracks formed on the surface.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 July 2017
  • Together, these twin S’s form the essence of an equation that is arguably the most effective diviner of the future yet devised.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Water diviners and well-drilling companies in the area are booked out nearly a year; neighbors are going down many hundreds of feet to find water.
    — Mike Sager, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2015
  • When a diviner from Korea informs the emperor that his son would be a bad ruler, Genji is demoted to the status of a commoner.
    — Emily Ferguson, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Some time after, Jacob, Monica, and a water diviner locate the perfect spot for a well.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Born with snow white hair and deep brown skin in the imaginary country of Orïsha, young diviners morph into mighty, magic-wielding maji, or magicians, at 13.
    — Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The harvest rain’s principal contribution to the origins of religion was to spawn a priestly class—diviners and shamans—to forecast or summon it.
    — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The breakthrough was one of several landmark findings by Barnett and Pierce, whose work enriched Scripps’ reputation as a diviner of how the ocean, sea, and humans interact.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • But when a mysterious scroll falls into the hands of Amari, a defiant princess, and Zélie, a tenacious diviner warrior, the two young women set out on a thrilling, death-defying journey to restore magic and take back the throne.
    — Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • But like any good traveling diviner, this healer punched up his story to convince what must have been a pair of incredibly skeptical parents.
    — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 8 June 2020
  • For example, patrons wanting to learn more about an Ifa bowl from the Yoruba region of Nigeria can hear a Yoruba diviner’s explanation of the divination ritual.
    — Eilene Zimmerman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Despite being a talented diviner, Buddy is afraid of water.
    — Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Now diviners, instead of growing into maji, have become an underclass, heavily taxed and oppressed by a government who calls them maggots.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Poole cemented himself as a much-sought-after diviner of internet culture, mixing with tech’s biggest names at the industry’s highest-profile gatherings—including giving a keynote speech at South by Southwest in 2011.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Enter local diviner Seo Doyoon (Lee Seung-gi), who's charged with finding the princess love by analyzing compatible astrological data, personal energies and destinies.
    — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But the most skilled diviners of feline feelings were people with professional experience involving cats, including veterinarians.
    — Karin Brulliard, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • And summoning Paimon in particular might be an especially difficult process, according Dr. Alexander Cummins, a historian and diviner.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 15 June 2018
  • Anyone who attended that dazzling/challenging theatrical bonanza learned that McCraney is a diviner of the incantatory, the spiritually mysterious, the atmospheric.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2017

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