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
Some of the subjects, such Mohandas Gandhi and the poet Rabindranath Tagore, are familiar, whereas many others—seers, rulers, slaves, poets, artists, yogis, engineers, and entrepreneurs—will be new to most non-Indian readers.
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Sunil Khilnani, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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.
—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
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Sunil Khilnani, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seer
Noun
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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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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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On the roof of the world, an enchanted kingdom of yetis and mystics is preparing to meet the modern world.—
By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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And yet, even when the Beatles retreated to an ashram in the late ’60s seeking transcendence, most Americans still saw yoga as something for hippies and Eastern mystics.—
Danielle Friedman,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Seer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seer. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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