Thesaurus results for SEERS

seers

noun

plural of seer

as in diviners

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 seers The forecaster who makes the most accurate predictions, as early as possible, can earn a cash prize and, perhaps more important, the esteem of the world’s most talented seers. —

Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026 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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Noun

Like all prophets, The Storyteller arrives at an auspicious moment in human history.

— Bruce Stockler, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026
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