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
Agnes is both a seer and healer, preparing natural remedies for the townsfolk to help with ailments and sickness.
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Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
The book spans more than six decades and charts the rise of Malone, 84, from an engineering background to his current status as billionaire and media industry seer.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Aug. 2025
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
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Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
The book spans more than six decades and charts the rise of Malone, 84, from an engineering background to his current status as billionaire and media industry seer.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Aug. 2025
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seer
Noun
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Ora Cogan makes songs the way diviners cast charms.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
16 Mar. 2026
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While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The most savvy prophet of this new reality may be Markiplier himself.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
31 May 2026
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Surely, being a prophet destined to die on the cross would be a painful vocation, and the film refuses to look away from this pain.—
Isaac Butler,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
Noun
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Hurricane center forecasters said in an early morning June 4 advisory Amanda was located about 1,500 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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With many newcomers and no major South Florida storm since Irma in 2017, forecasters worry about complacency.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
Noun
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The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.—
Virginia Raguin,
The Conversation,
19 Feb. 2026
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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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But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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The mystics were also attuned to the limits of language.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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