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 futurists of the 20th century influenced the political sphere, but their movements were ultimately artistic and literary. Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025 Kurzweil is Google’s chief futurist, a transhumanist who also predicted that humans could achieve immortality by 2030. Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for futurist
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Political forecasters give the GOP a better shot in New Jersey, where their nominee, former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, is nipping away at Sherrill's lead in the polls.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That's pretty much exactly what forecasters are predicting for 2025.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Just four years after graduating, Aschenbrenner is holding private discussions with tech CEOs, investors, and policymakers who treat him as a kind of prophet of the AI age.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • He was named one of the church's top governing bodies in 1984, and became its leader and prophet in 2018, at the age of 93.
    Richard Hall, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In today’s digital age, however, mystics have evolved and gone mainstream.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 28 Oct. 2025.

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