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divined

verb

past tense of divine

as in anticipated

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 divined Ultimately, though, Saijo divined the phenomenology of the pursuit. — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026 My lack of tact and legibility is divined. — Morgan Parker, New Yorker, 6 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 The internet is full of polls that have divined, by soliciting votes from film critics and filmmakers, what are ostensibly the greatest movies of all time. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Feb. 2026 The Etruscan civilization 2,400 years ago in ancient Italy, experts say, believed the future could be divined using chickens, which were said to embody magical qualities. — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025 That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined. — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025

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Additionally, the marine level’s compression is not likely to be as significant as the National Weather Service anticipated last week, because of low pressure expected in the upper reaches of the atmosphere.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
Though sent back to the minors, his return to the big leagues is anticipated soon.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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No one foresaw the horrific depths to which the combination of a charismatic leader, an all-encompassing belief system, and the human need for community and redemption would soon descend.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Early drafts of the No Surprises Act foresaw this very issue, said the Washington Examiner.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2026

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