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noun

plural of divine
as in priests
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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verb

present tense third-person singular of divine
as in anticipates
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 divines
Noun
Kropschot divines melodies in lines like a composer eking out a score. — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for divines
  1. priests
  2. anticipates
  3. preachers
  4. foresees
  5. clerics
  6. ministers
Noun
  • So it was left to her to become one of the 15% of Shinto priests who are female.
    — Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026
  • While helicopters scattered miniature red roses over the crowd, priests in white robes celebrated Mass and the popular Mazowsze folk ensemble sang and danced to traditional Polish music.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of priests
Verb
  • Bank of America anticipates the payroll growth figure to come in slightly lower, at 80,000.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The project anticipates bringing 1,000 jobs to Olathe, and an additional 13–20 employees hired for the first 10 years, according to the bond application.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of anticipates
Noun
  • Videos posted on social media show street preachers speaking with multiple police officers outside the event.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
  • Instead, there are countless influencers, preachers, and personalities who have created niche movements with their own theologies and political alignments.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026
Definition of preachers
Verb
  • Last month, Semafor reported that Amazon’s sustainability chief foresees a multi-year uptick in the company’s carbon footprint.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Every father hopes for a better life for their children, but no parent foresees their child living in a warzone.
    — Diaa Ostaz, ABC News, 24 July 2026
Definition of foresees
Noun
  • The church refused, and Armenia's Prosecutor General's office launched the case against Karekin and the other clerics in February, accusing them of defying a court order and barring them from leaving the country.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In July, over 250 former lawmakers, clerics, professors and other public figures signed an anti-war petition warning of the costs of the conflict.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of clerics
Noun
  • The arrangement includes a new organization, to be overseen by a secretariat in Saudi Arabia, and regular meetings among the foreign and defense ministers of the three countries, along with their military chiefs.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The symbol of an institution that for decades has prepared many of Ukraine’s top public finance officials and ministers sat bomb-blasted and unusable.
    — Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
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