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
Onstage will be an extraordinary mix of changemakers, business leaders, and futurists drawn from the worlds of politics, sport, energy, architecture, film, and transport.
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Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
Of course, Joe and I discussed the difference and the relationship between noise and music, which was a theme dear to the futurists.
—Billboard Italy, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
Larry English is a workplace futurist, passionate about all things innovation, but particularly technology that drives disruptive change.
—Larry English, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
In it, the AI futurist explores tech’s potential to one day enable us to literally experience another’s consciousness.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
Of course, Joe and I discussed the difference and the relationship between noise and music, which was a theme dear to the futurists.
—Billboard Italy, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
Larry English is a workplace futurist, passionate about all things innovation, but particularly technology that drives disruptive change.
—Larry English, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
In it, the AI futurist explores tech’s potential to one day enable us to literally experience another’s consciousness.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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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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They are thought of not just as coaches but as gurus, prophets, avatars for particular ideas.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025
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But like so many great prophets before her, Ellen is not so well received in her time.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2024
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This was a soulful testifying that truly went into the mystic.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 Jan. 2025
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But according to heaps of meditators and mystics through the millennia, this, too, can be deconstructed.—
Oshan Jarow,
Vox,
8 Jan. 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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