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
Ray Kurzweil, a futurist, has noted that expanding computational capability exponentially expands the range of human intelligence.
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
And the he general pattern of interest around Orwell points to something more durable than his novels’ futurist menace or academic nostalgia.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
At the time, Buckminster Fuller—American architect, designer, and futurist—was reaching a similar conclusion but from an altogether different angle.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
This form of carbon is named after Buckminster Fuller, a space futurist and architect known for his work on hemispherical structures called geodesic domes.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
And the he general pattern of interest around Orwell points to something more durable than his novels’ futurist menace or academic nostalgia.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
At the time, Buckminster Fuller—American architect, designer, and futurist—was reaching a similar conclusion but from an altogether different angle.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
This form of carbon is named after Buckminster Fuller, a space futurist and architect known for his work on hemispherical structures called geodesic domes.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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Hurricane center forecasters said in an early morning June 4 advisory Amanda was located about 1,500 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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With many newcomers and no major South Florida storm since Irma in 2017, forecasters worry about complacency.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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The most savvy prophet of this new reality may be Markiplier himself.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
31 May 2026
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Surely, being a prophet destined to die on the cross would be a painful vocation, and the film refuses to look away from this pain.—
Isaac Butler,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
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But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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The mystics were also attuned to the limits of language.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 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 10 Jun. 2026.
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