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
The seer, a game twist introduced in the last episode, was finally announced following Reyes’ departure.
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Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2025
No seer, from Cassandra onward, has ever been happy to be proved correct.
—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
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Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2025
No seer, from Cassandra onward, has ever been happy to be proved correct.
—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
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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
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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, a perennial doomsday prophet, sounded the alarm Tuesday in a winding X post that also promoted his new book.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
30 Apr. 2025
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The father talks about their prophet, and how she’s been dead ten years, but her spirit lives on inside them.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
28 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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Perhaps the mystics and statistics were waiting for the right moment.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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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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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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