as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
a prophesier of good things for the team in the coming season
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Noun
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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 -
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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“Prophesier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophesier. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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