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
For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
This column has a companion, The AI/XR Podcast, hosted by its author, Charlie Fink, and Ted Schilowitz, former studio executive and futurist for Paramount and Fox, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Each of those motivations resurfaces in Fallout’s second season, which is just as retro-futurist as the first in look and increasingly sprawling in narrative.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
This column has a companion, The AI/XR Podcast, hosted by its author, Charlie Fink, and Ted Schilowitz, former studio executive and futurist for Paramount and Fox, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Each of those motivations resurfaces in Fallout’s second season, which is just as retro-futurist as the first in look and increasingly sprawling in narrative.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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
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Jan Null is a veteran meteorologist who worked as a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service and now runs Golden Gate Weather Services, a company in Half Moon Bay.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Triple-digit heat continues in the West, although forecasters say the end is in sight.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
27 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
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And yet, as a prophet of capitalism, in the regimented ballet of the pin-makers Smith intuited Henry Ford’s assembly line, of how the entire world would become subservient to manufacturing and finance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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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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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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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurist. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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