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
So the multitude of pilgrims, devotees, seers and ascetics is even bigger than usual — and even easier to get lost in.
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Atul Loke, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
The government even organized helicopters to shower flower petals on the saints and seers taking a holy dip.
—Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
To find his way home, the lost seafarer Odysseus must travel to the underworld to receive a prophecy from the blind seer, Tiresias.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Atul Loke, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
The government even organized helicopters to shower flower petals on the saints and seers taking a holy dip.
—Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
To find his way home, the lost seafarer Odysseus must travel to the underworld to receive a prophecy from the blind seer, Tiresias.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seer
Noun
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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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Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The biblical prophet was born in Egypt, where the Israelites were enslaved, and soon after Pharaoh ordered the murder of all their newborn sons.—
Miriam Eve Mora,
The Conversation,
14 Mar. 2025
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Kibbe himself, now in his seventies, remains both the system’s prophet and its greatest mystery.—
Rachel Hills,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 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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Another influential saint was the 14th-century Italian mystic and writer Catherine of Siena.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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The canyon has long been considered sacred by Native people and, more recently, holy by pilgrims and unique by New Age mystics and psychics who believe in its spiritual powers.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
15 Nov. 2024
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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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