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
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.
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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
Greene later surfaced a nine-year-old CBS News clip featuring futurist and physicist Michio Kaku discussing experimental lab research into weather modification using lasers.
—Tess Owen, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
While at Bessemer, Kurzweil, the son of famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, invested in unicorns LaunchDarkly and Intercom, as well as now-public PagerDuty ($1.7 billion market cap) and Twitch, acquired by Amazon for just under $1 billion.
—Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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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
Greene later surfaced a nine-year-old CBS News clip featuring futurist and physicist Michio Kaku discussing experimental lab research into weather modification using lasers.
—Tess Owen, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
While at Bessemer, Kurzweil, the son of famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, invested in unicorns LaunchDarkly and Intercom, as well as now-public PagerDuty ($1.7 billion market cap) and Twitch, acquired by Amazon for just under $1 billion.
—Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
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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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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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The witches act as dancers and backup singers as well as prophets.Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2024
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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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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 22 Dec. 2024.
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