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
Nevala-Lee’s previous biography was on Buckminster Fuller, architect, futurist, longtime professor at Southern Illinois University, but also an infamously obtuse, inscrutable mansplainer’s mansplainer — his lectures seemed to go on for days.
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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Now, however, Silicon Valley venture capitalists, futurists, East Coast entrepreneurs, and pronatalists — who fear falling birth rates pose an existential threat to the human race — are eager to push the technology forward.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
Like the Italian futurists, Diamandis is drawn to dynamism, to the promise of speed.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Ramsey, a futurist, author and entrepreneur, was a legislative aide to Sen. John Kerry.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2025
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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Now, however, Silicon Valley venture capitalists, futurists, East Coast entrepreneurs, and pronatalists — who fear falling birth rates pose an existential threat to the human race — are eager to push the technology forward.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
Like the Italian futurists, Diamandis is drawn to dynamism, to the promise of speed.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Ramsey, a futurist, author and entrepreneur, was a legislative aide to Sen. John Kerry.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 29 July 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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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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And, in 2023, forecasters and Fed economists predicted a recession that never happened.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Hurricane forecasters are watching a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa that could develop into a tropical depression by next week.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The prophets of biblical Israel demand justice and care for the stranger, widow, and orphan.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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In the 15th century, Sufi mystics are said to have consumed it to stay awake during long nights of prayer and devotions.—
Ali Halit Diker,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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The Golem of Prague, rooted in 16th-century Jewish folklore, tells the story of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a renowned Talmudic scholar and mystic who sought to protect the Jewish community of Prague from antisemitic attacks and blood libel accusations.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 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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It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 May 2021
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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurist. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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