How to Use futurist in a Sentence

futurist

noun
  • Despite the predictions of futurists, the 21st century is suffering from a true dearth of flying cars, but that’s not stopping politicians from making laws about them.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 July 2024
  • This is true for the most classic and for the most futurist of games.
    Joseph Young, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But futurists say that script may be on the verge of a rewrite.
    Peter Holley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Keating drew the name of his podcast from the Clarke Laws, a list of three rules posed by the late futurist.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Much of your work as a futurist involves what’s next in high tech.
    Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • Aquarius is the sign of the rebel, the innovator, the futurist.
    Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2016
  • The tracks are at once both futurist and funky (a nod to the genre’s roots), and clearly designed with large dancefloors in mind.
    Michael Sundius, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2017
  • And the third thing is, every day, in every moment, be a futurist.
    S. D. Chrismon, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • The author, futurist and life coach Lance Wallnau is a man of firm beliefs.
    Grace Ashford, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • About a third of drivers clean the inside of their car only about once a year, said a futurist at Ford Motor Co.
    Diya Chacko, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2020
  • One of the most influential futurists of our time is Ray Kurzweil.
    Alida Draudt, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Fashion leaders in his own era praised him as a futurist.
    Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Could the time finally be right for the flying car to leave the drawing boards of futurists and take to our skies as a new form of transportation?
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2017
  • In the retro-futurist ’80s, Thierry Mugler made space suits and alien beauties.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Just ask author and futurist Marshall T. Savage, who found out the hard way.
    Tom McNichol, WIRED, 1 July 2001
  • This high-concept film is action-packed, and Cruise is a key chess piece for Spielberg to use to tell his futurist story.
    cleveland, 11 June 2022
  • The futurist design brought what’s to come into what is already.
    Charlotte Kent, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • This fall will not only see the release of Wildsam guides to Portland, Hawaii and Atlanta, but, in one giant leap for all futurists, the moon.
    Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The futurist in you lends itself to modern, geometric, and eclectic pieces—your home is all about the mix, as well as the latest gadgets.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2021
  • For decades, futurists have dreamed of flying cars, with little real-world progress.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 July 2023
  • Giordano, now a strategic futurist with Play Big Inc., helps others plan for the future.
    Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But the real star of the show is the retro-futurist setting these characters inhabit.
    Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In a career of more than three-quarters of a century, Mr. Cardin remained a futurist.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The dichotomy between the futurist and the test pilot gets to a real issue facing any plane with a battery: Who will fly them?
    New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • But the futurists of the Roaring ’20s did come fairly close on a few prognostications.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But entrepreneurs and futurists are thinking closer to home.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But foxery is futurist, a whiff of what’s upwind, a knack for slipping past apocalypse.
    Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Polygon1993 is known for a retro-futurist style and has said each of the NFTs incorporate an element of nostalgia.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The answer is one that divides futurists, writers, and academics.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2019
  • Swept up in the Cold War space race, hospitality futurists had a firm belief travelers would soon be jetting beyond Earth.
    Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2023

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