as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
a financial forecaster who is widely followed by investors
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Recent Examples of forecaster
La Niña can help forecasters create extended winter outlooks that favor drier and warmer conditions, but the season could still unfold differently than expected.
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Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Jerry was struggling to organize into a hurricane as forecasters previously predicted might happen toward the end of the week.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Flood watches have been issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) for parts of six states, including California, Arizona, and Utah, with forecasters anticipating multiple inches of rain across the region in the days ahead.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Now residents are wondering why the fire department reportedly didn’t station any engines in the Palisades on January 7, when the New Year’s burn site was still relatively fresh and forecasters had predicted catastrophic, fire-fueling winds.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Aschenbrenner also brought on Carl Shulman—a 45-year-old AI forecaster and governance researcher with deep ties in the AI safety field and a past stint at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital—to be the new hedge fund’s director of research.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
In some cases, 3 to 5 inches of rain might be possible, forecasters said, which could lead to flash flooding.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Jerry was struggling to organize into a hurricane as forecasters previously predicted might happen toward the end of the week.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Flood watches have been issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) for parts of six states, including California, Arizona, and Utah, with forecasters anticipating multiple inches of rain across the region in the days ahead.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Now residents are wondering why the fire department reportedly didn’t station any engines in the Palisades on January 7, when the New Year’s burn site was still relatively fresh and forecasters had predicted catastrophic, fire-fueling winds.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Aschenbrenner also brought on Carl Shulman—a 45-year-old AI forecaster and governance researcher with deep ties in the AI safety field and a past stint at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital—to be the new hedge fund’s director of research.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
In some cases, 3 to 5 inches of rain might be possible, forecasters said, which could lead to flash flooding.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forecaster
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That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 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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Just four years after graduating, Aschenbrenner is holding private discussions with tech CEOs, investors, and policymakers who treat him as a kind of prophet of the AI age.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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He was named one of the church's top governing bodies in 1984, and became its leader and prophet in 2018, at the age of 93.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025
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Outside the Vatican, prognosticators of all stripes scrambled to predict what name would be announced from the basilica balcony.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
11 Oct. 2025
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Both of our intrepid prognosticators are … trying their best.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Forecaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forecaster. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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