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
Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California.
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Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
That’s why futurist Jamais Cascio introduced a new framework in 2020: BANI.
—Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Related: [These new flying taxis offer a glimpse at our future commutes]
But those use cases are still a far cry from the vision many futurists have of personal flying cars swarming city skies.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 May 2025
Shawn co-stars as legendary futurist and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, the architect of the geodesic dome, whose philosophies echo through the picture.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2025
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Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
That’s why futurist Jamais Cascio introduced a new framework in 2020: BANI.
—Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Related: [These new flying taxis offer a glimpse at our future commutes]
But those use cases are still a far cry from the vision many futurists have of personal flying cars swarming city skies.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 May 2025
Shawn co-stars as legendary futurist and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, the architect of the geodesic dome, whose philosophies echo through the picture.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Apr. 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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But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.—
John Kaag,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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New prophets competed to revive her army in their image.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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Two panoramic terraces look out onto Positano and the sea, framed by leafy plants, colorful throw pillows and flapping curtains that add a touch of mystic to the whole ambiance.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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The Conference of the Birds is a poem about sufism, the doctrine propounded by the mystics of Islam.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 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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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurist. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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