as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
several leading Wall Street seers have cautioned investors to prepare for a downturn in the economy
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Recent Examples of seer
That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle.
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Aug. 2025
With one crack of an egg in a bowl of water, the seer sees two yolks.
—Lincee Ray August 29, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Then again, not even the famed French astrologer and reputed seer of the 16th Century was all that, based on skepticism.
—Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Aug. 2025
With one crack of an egg in a bowl of water, the seer sees two yolks.
—Lincee Ray August 29, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Then again, not even the famed French astrologer and reputed seer of the 16th Century was all that, based on skepticism.
—Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seer
Noun
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Ora Cogan makes songs the way diviners cast charms.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
16 Mar. 2026
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While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In the Hebrew Bible’s narrative in Exodus, Moses arises as a leader of the Israelites and a prophet of God.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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In a political culture that treats its leaders as unassailable, today’s god becomes tomorrow’s false prophet.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The combined result will be a mass exodus; the forecasters from UCLA and Berkeley project that nearly 3 million people in California will leave Medi-Cal over the next 24 to 32 months.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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Now take into consideration that forecasters expect an El Niño — a phase of a natural climate phenomenon that warms up the ocean surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean — to develop late this year.—
Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.—
Virginia Raguin,
The Conversation,
19 Feb. 2026
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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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The novel works well as a story about sisters and sisterhood, toxic relationships, payback, herbs and a touch of the mystic.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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This Spanish biographical drama tells the story of the late 19th-century Italian mystic, who was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church after her death.—
Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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