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as in diviners
one who predicts future events or developments
according to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed
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as in dreamers
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
19th-century visionaries who founded short-lived communities in which everyone was supposed to live in perfect peace and harmony
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Recent Examples of visionaries
Well, to be fair, there were a few visionaries who were absolutely thinking about that.
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Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
Both Benjamin and Wright were visionaries who were able to see the historical moment very clearly and were swiftly punished for that vision.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
So why are these two disparate visionaries forever linked?
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
The faculty at that time included local visionaries Whitney Halstead and Kathleen Blackshear, who urged their students to look beyond the Western canon.
—Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
And companies that endure—the ones that outlive industries, cycles and founders—are led by people who operate as architects, not just visionaries.
—Nilton Bernini, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
The show is dedicated to spotlighting founders, creators and visionaries who transform their deepest experiences into platforms that serve others.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 21 May 2026
The work from these visionaries in travel, beauty, gardening, and more is shaped by color.
—Eleni N. Gage, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2026
Fugman and her colleagues have access to resources like EDP, HCA’s Leadership Excellence Program, the Leadership Engagement & Development (LEAD) program, and the Executive Residency Program (ERP), all of which focus on developing the organization’s next generation of leaders and visionaries.
—Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
Both Benjamin and Wright were visionaries who were able to see the historical moment very clearly and were swiftly punished for that vision.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
So why are these two disparate visionaries forever linked?
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
The faculty at that time included local visionaries Whitney Halstead and Kathleen Blackshear, who urged their students to look beyond the Western canon.
—Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
And companies that endure—the ones that outlive industries, cycles and founders—are led by people who operate as architects, not just visionaries.
—Nilton Bernini, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
The show is dedicated to spotlighting founders, creators and visionaries who transform their deepest experiences into platforms that serve others.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 21 May 2026
The work from these visionaries in travel, beauty, gardening, and more is shaped by color.
—Eleni N. Gage, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2026
Fugman and her colleagues have access to resources like EDP, HCA’s Leadership Excellence Program, the Leadership Engagement & Development (LEAD) program, and the Executive Residency Program (ERP), all of which focus on developing the organization’s next generation of leaders and visionaries.
—Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visionaries
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This idea was the work of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that began gathering momentum in the 1990s and is now the leading edge of the Christian right.—
Stephanie McCrummen,
The Atlantic,
18 May 2026
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Like all prophets, The Storyteller arrives at an auspicious moment in human history.—
Bruce Stockler,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Ronan faces threats from those looking to eliminate dreamers like him.—
Caroline Killilea,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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Other repeat dreamers have been thwarted as well.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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Federal forecasters put the odds of a strong El Niño this winter at roughly two in three, and the odds of one matching or exceeding the record 2015 event at better than one in three.—
Ravi S. Bhalla,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
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One woman is dead and another is in critical condition after they were swept out to sea by a powerful tide in Santa Cruz this week amid hazardous ocean conditions that forecasters warn will continue across the California coastline this weekend, authorities said.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.—
Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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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,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Aug. 2019
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Some futurists compare this development to our primitive ancestors’ discovery of fire.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
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For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2026
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