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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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Jason Lemon, Senior Politics Editor Philosophy The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran | Penguin Classics The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays by the legendary writer Gibran about a fictional prophet who is asked by townspeople to discuss matters of life before sailing home.Newsweek Staff, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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The obvious question is, how can a false prophet have the ability to perform miracles?Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 26 Aug. 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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The mystics were not just these people having these strange extreme experiences.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
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The cards were drawn under strict instruction of A. E. Waite, a prominent male mystic and freemason.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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