as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
several leading Wall Street seers have cautioned investors to prepare for a downturn in the economy
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Recent Examples of seer
No seer, from Cassandra onward, has ever been happy to be proved correct.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Tax seers have a batting average well below that of the local weather forecaster.
—Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
So the multitude of pilgrims, devotees, seers and ascetics is even bigger than usual — and even easier to get lost in.
—Atul Loke, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
The government even organized helicopters to shower flower petals on the saints and seers taking a holy dip.
—Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Tax seers have a batting average well below that of the local weather forecaster.
—Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
So the multitude of pilgrims, devotees, seers and ascetics is even bigger than usual — and even easier to get lost in.
—Atul Loke, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
The government even organized helicopters to shower flower petals on the saints and seers taking a holy dip.
—Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for seer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seer
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
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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
Noun
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While some people died in the fire of smoke inhalation, others, including the 33-year-old prophet, suffered fatal gunshot wounds.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Cut to: Hampton reading from The Book of Jonah, a section of the Old Testament perhaps best known for the titular prophet getting swallowed by a whale.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 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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Maybe investors know something that the administration’s oddball collection of economic ideologues and mystics don’t understand.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
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For her part, af Klint identified more as a mystic than as an artist, at times claiming to channel the astral plane with her work.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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