as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
economic futurists predict a new world order in which information is the resource that drives a nation's economy
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Recent Examples of futurist
Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist, futurist, and inventor based in New York City.
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Jason Snyder, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Although many futurists argue that AI will increasingly compete with human intelligence, the Singularity hypothesis is that machine intelligence will merge with human life.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Devoted to the contrapuntal wonders of Bach, the classicism of Mozart and the astonishment of Beethoven, Schoenberg began his career by mending the major divide of his own early years, that of Wagner the futurist and Brahms the keeper of tradition.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Onstage will be an extraordinary mix of changemakers, business leaders, and futurists drawn from the worlds of politics, sport, energy, architecture, film, and transport.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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Jason Snyder, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Although many futurists argue that AI will increasingly compete with human intelligence, the Singularity hypothesis is that machine intelligence will merge with human life.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Devoted to the contrapuntal wonders of Bach, the classicism of Mozart and the astonishment of Beethoven, Schoenberg began his career by mending the major divide of his own early years, that of Wagner the futurist and Brahms the keeper of tradition.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Onstage will be an extraordinary mix of changemakers, business leaders, and futurists drawn from the worlds of politics, sport, energy, architecture, film, and transport.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Jethro—the biblical prophet Moses' father-in-law—is the most important prophet in the Druze religion and the ancestor of all Druze.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Millenarian prophets associated it with empire, persecution, and decadence, often fomenting social unrest and rebellion.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The canyon has long been considered sacred by Native people and, more recently, holy by pilgrims and unique by New Age mystics and psychics who believe in its spiritual powers.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
15 Nov. 2024
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This was a soulful testifying that truly went into the mystic.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 Jan. 2025
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.—
Nancy Princenthal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2024
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In the left panel, van Eyck depicts separate moments in a narrative that leads our eyes in a snaking line from the foreground figures of Mary and John the Evangelist, past Mary Magdalene and a prophesying sibyl, then up to the soldiers and horsemen crowding around the cross.—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
14 Oct. 2020
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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurist. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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