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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
For Black fashion, Davis’s ascent marks a historic shift, placing a young Black creative at the helm of a global luxury powerhouse and signaling a future shaped by diverse visionaries.
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Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
The festival is designed to unite thought leaders, celebrities, executives and visionaries to dive into current public health issues.
—Giana Levy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The most transformative tables are those where people think differently and where pragmatists sit beside poets and skeptics challenge visionaries.
—Natalie Silverman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
One of our last great visionaries is gone.
—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Leaders Shaping the Future of AI to spotlight leaders, innovators, and visionaries shaping the future of artificial intelligence, including those featured on the 2025 TIME100 AI list, on October 13th in San Francisco.
—Time Pr, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Perhaps someone can hold a giant conference there, to think up the new models of city governance that elude today’s would-be urban visionaries.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
These visionaries are shaping the future through transformative ideas, groundbreaking technologies, and a commitment to making a positive impact on their communities.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
These are exactly the types of development that Montgomery Ward, (Daniel) Burnham and generations of Chicago’s civic visionaries have worked to keep off our beloved lakefront.
—Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2024
Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
The festival is designed to unite thought leaders, celebrities, executives and visionaries to dive into current public health issues.
—Giana Levy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The most transformative tables are those where people think differently and where pragmatists sit beside poets and skeptics challenge visionaries.
—Natalie Silverman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
One of our last great visionaries is gone.
—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Leaders Shaping the Future of AI to spotlight leaders, innovators, and visionaries shaping the future of artificial intelligence, including those featured on the 2025 TIME100 AI list, on October 13th in San Francisco.
—Time Pr, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Perhaps someone can hold a giant conference there, to think up the new models of city governance that elude today’s would-be urban visionaries.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
These visionaries are shaping the future through transformative ideas, groundbreaking technologies, and a commitment to making a positive impact on their communities.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
These are exactly the types of development that Montgomery Ward, (Daniel) Burnham and generations of Chicago’s civic visionaries have worked to keep off our beloved lakefront.
—Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visionaries
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From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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Like legions of dreamers before him, McGuirk started on film and TV sets as a PA, an often thankless job where random castigations from members of the cast or crew can be par for the course.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The prophets of biblical Israel demand justice and care for the stranger, widow, and orphan.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Tropical activity is expected to gradually ramp up over the next few weeks as conditions become more favorable for development, forecasters say.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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La Niña is coming, forecasters say.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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By contrast, contemporary techno-futurists like Musk lead powerful multinational corporations that influence economies and cultures across the globe.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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The same corporate event planners who used to book futurists with hologram slide decks are now on the hunt for celebrity performers who can yank an audience out of its AI stupor for ten electrifying minutes.—
Seth Yudof,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Visionaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visionaries. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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