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
This 1920's palazzo in L.A.'s Fremont Place enclave was owned for decades by one of Hollywood’s favorite undertakers and later was leased to a prominent futurist.
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Mark Voss, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
Globally renowned futurist, innovation guru, and keynote speaker Robert B. Tucker inspires audiences to capitalize on today’s important trends.
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The automatic foxhole-digging charges, for example, never materialized as an effective replacement for the beloved handheld entrenching tool, despite their prevalence among military futurists at the time.
—Jared Keller, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
Larry English is a workplace futurist, passionate about all things innovation, but particularly technology that drives disruptive change.
—Larry English, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Mark Voss, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
Globally renowned futurist, innovation guru, and keynote speaker Robert B. Tucker inspires audiences to capitalize on today’s important trends.
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The automatic foxhole-digging charges, for example, never materialized as an effective replacement for the beloved handheld entrenching tool, despite their prevalence among military futurists at the time.
—Jared Keller, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
Larry English is a workplace futurist, passionate about all things innovation, but particularly technology that drives disruptive change.
—Larry English, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The film portrays Dylan as a prophet bringing independence and idiosyncrasy to a world of rule-enforcers and followers.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2024
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The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Elsewhere, this gentle-seeming New Age mystic has praised Ion Antonescu, the Romanian wartime dictator who conspired with Hitler and was sentenced to death for war crimes, including his role in the Romanian Holocaust.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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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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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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