How to Use futurist in a Sentence

futurist

noun
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  • This is true for the most classic and for the most futurist of games.
    — Joseph Young, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But futurists say that script may be on the verge of a rewrite.
    — Peter Holley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Keating drew the name of his podcast from the Clarke Laws, a list of three rules posed by the late futurist.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • And the third thing is, every day, in every moment, be a futurist.
    — S. D. Chrismon, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • The author, futurist and life coach Lance Wallnau is a man of firm beliefs.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • About a third of drivers clean the inside of their car only about once a year, said a futurist at Ford Motor Co.
    — Diya Chacko, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2020
  • Fashion leaders in his own era praised him as a futurist.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In the retro-futurist ’80s, Thierry Mugler made space suits and alien beauties.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
  • This high-concept film is action-packed, and Cruise is a key chess piece for Spielberg to use to tell his futurist story.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2022
  • The futurist design brought what’s to come into what is already.
    — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • This fall will not only see the release of Wildsam guides to Portland, Hawaii and Atlanta, but, in one giant leap for all futurists, the moon.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The futurist in you lends itself to modern, geometric, and eclectic pieces—your home is all about the mix, as well as the latest gadgets.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2021
  • For decades, futurists have dreamed of flying cars, with little real-world progress.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 July 2023
  • Giordano, now a strategic futurist with Play Big Inc., helps others plan for the future.
    — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But the real star of the show is the retro-futurist setting these characters inhabit.
    — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In a career of more than three-quarters of a century, Mr. Cardin remained a futurist.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The dichotomy between the futurist and the test pilot gets to a real issue facing any plane with a battery: Who will fly them?
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • But the futurists of the Roaring ’20s did come fairly close on a few prognostications.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But entrepreneurs and futurists are thinking closer to home.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But foxery is futurist, a whiff of what’s upwind, a knack for slipping past apocalypse.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Polygon1993 is known for a retro-futurist style and has said each of the NFTs incorporate an element of nostalgia.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The answer is one that divides futurists, writers, and academics.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2019
  • Another futurist bust, by Renato Bertelli, sits on the counter of the master bath.
    — Chris Wallac, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2021
  • As a futurist, Naisbitt utilized a unique method of tracking the trends called content analysis.
    — Robert Tucker, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • On the other hand, futurist Peter Schwartzcontends that the entire electric system is part of the EV supply chain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2022
  • What’s the difference between God and a retail futurist?
    — Steve Dennis, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • That streak has continued in the months after the Scottish pop futurist’s death, with a new song coming out posthumously today.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Would-be futurists intoned that the age of skyscrapers was past, that no new iconic high-rises would shadow American cities.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • And yet — just like the makeup — the result is futurist, imaginative, and 100-percent trend-setting.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 9 Mar. 2019
  • And seven new studios launched the first week of June, said Wanda Meloni, an analyst and futurist with the research and consulting firm.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021

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