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 According to the Law of Accelerating Returns, developed by futurist Ray Kurzweil, the years between 2000 and 2014 saw progress equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, and another 20th-century’s-worth of progress will happen in half that time, by 2021. Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017 Techno—once the music of Black futurists in Detroit, then countercultural rabble-rousers in post-reunification Berlin—is today the stuff of TikTok memes and arguably more popular than ever before. Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024 PechaKucha Night: Vision 2074 Artists, architects, futurists and academics present their visions for the San Diego region in 50 years in a never-boring performance format at one of the region's best art spaces. Andrew Keatts, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024 Here Morris relies on the ideas of several imaginative futurists. Michael Mandelbaum, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2014 See all Example Sentences for futurist 
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  • There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
    James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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  • In the end, the durability of their partnership may depend on Musk’s motives: What drove him to become a MAGA prophet in the first place?
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Another about Harlan arguing with Ray Bradbury (America’s sweetest doomsday prophet) about Walt Disney and America and capitalism — the two of them shouting themselves hoarse for hours because neither would give up an inch of rhetorical ground.
    Jason Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
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  • The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • These notorious mystics from film and television exemplify their corresponding zodiac sign.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
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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
  • 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 7 Dec. 2024.

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