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
Parker has always seemed to amiably float along in his retro-futurist space cloud.
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Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Some of the hangars are used as soundstages, and Linklater pointed out an old air-traffic-control tower, jutting, with pleasing retro-futurist incongruity, out of a public plaza.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Koray Köse is a supply chain expert, tech futurist, author, former Gartner analyst and CEO & Founder of KŌSE ADVISORY.
—Koray Köse, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In the 2009 documentary Transcendent Man, the American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil shares his thoughts on death.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
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While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.—
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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.—
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The cold front will bring snow to western North Carolina, with peaks along the NC-Tennessee state line expecting to see around an inch, forecasters say.—
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Forecasting is never foolproof, but since the pandemic, professional forecasters have been mostly on target, if a little pessimistic.—
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King was a prophet and master of language, sent by God at a time in history when race relations were deeply fractured.—
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There are chaotic military bases and open-air markets and mad prophets and scavengers and snipers and some people who’ve managed to establish some twisted sense of normalcy.—
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It’s developed a cult following well beyond Mendocino County, magnetizing beer aficionados with a power appropriate to its namesake, Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin.—
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One reason medieval mystics resorted to apophatic language was to suggest the ineffable majesty of God, the God beyond God.—
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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.—
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It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.—
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“Futurist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futurist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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