as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
economic futurists predict a new world order in which information is the resource that drives a nation's economy
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Recent Examples of futurist
Shawn co-stars as legendary futurist and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, the architect of the geodesic dome, whose philosophies echo through the picture.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2025
Our futurist and columnist Rich Karlgaard unpacks the deeper impact of DeepSeek and who could be a winner in the AI race.
—Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
This column serves as the script for the news segment of our weekly AI/XR Podcast, co-hosted by former Paramount futurist and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, Mako Robotics, and Synthbee AI.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Expert Weighs In Patrice Williams-Lindo, workplace futurist, visibility strategist, and CEO of Career Nomad, told Newsweek that the manager's response reflects a broader workplace issue.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2025
Our futurist and columnist Rich Karlgaard unpacks the deeper impact of DeepSeek and who could be a winner in the AI race.
—Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
This column serves as the script for the news segment of our weekly AI/XR Podcast, co-hosted by former Paramount futurist and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, Mako Robotics, and Synthbee AI.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Expert Weighs In Patrice Williams-Lindo, workplace futurist, visibility strategist, and CEO of Career Nomad, told Newsweek that the manager's response reflects a broader workplace issue.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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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
Noun
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New prophets competed to revive her army in their image.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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For them, the Nazarene is not a charlatan, but an upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things, like other great prophets in the history of Israel.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
Noun
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The Conference of the Birds is a poem about sufism, the doctrine propounded by the mystics of Islam.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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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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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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