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
The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.
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Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 10 Apr. 2025
Timbaland cut his teeth imagining new sonic worlds for the rap futurist Missy Elliott and the late R&B sylph Aaliyah.
—Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 17 June 2025
Musk, on the other hand, is a 53-year-old futurist who strives to make humans a multi-planetary species and has made a fortune from innovation and technological disruption.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 7 June 2025
This column serves as the script for the news segment of my weekly AI/XR Podcast, co-hosted by former Paramount futurist and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, Mako Robotics, and Synthbee AI.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 10 Apr. 2025
Timbaland cut his teeth imagining new sonic worlds for the rap futurist Missy Elliott and the late R&B sylph Aaliyah.
—Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 17 June 2025
Musk, on the other hand, is a 53-year-old futurist who strives to make humans a multi-planetary species and has made a fortune from innovation and technological disruption.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 7 June 2025
This column serves as the script for the news segment of my weekly AI/XR Podcast, co-hosted by former Paramount futurist and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, Mako Robotics, and Synthbee AI.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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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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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 rally also marked Eid al-Ghadir, when, according to Shiite Muslim belief, the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated his nephew and companion Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
14 June 2025
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But that doesn’t rate the AI as being an oracle or a prophet.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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The irony was that Harlem’s numbers queen, a model of rational risk-taking, found herself in a love triangle with a dream-book mystic—then took to the newspapers to denounce Futtam’s obvious impostures.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Gamblers are mystics at heart, and lottery players see all sorts of patterns in the supposedly random sequences of winning numbers.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
19 June 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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