as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
several leading Wall Street seers have cautioned investors to prepare for a downturn in the economy
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Recent Examples of seer
Stalls selling fresh fish offered an education on the species that abound in the Arabian Sea: sardine, mackerel, pomfret, mullet, seer fish, prawns, and mussels.
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Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
The original Cassandra was a Trojan princess and seer.
—Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
This incubator of dauntless pilots and air safety seers grew into Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
—Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2024
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Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
The original Cassandra was a Trojan princess and seer.
—Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
This incubator of dauntless pilots and air safety seers grew into Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
—Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seer
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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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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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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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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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