seer

Example Sentences

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She was not a seer or mage who instinctively channeled beauty.

From Washington Post

“They were fortunetellers and seers,” he says of generations of his ancestors, who were “chosen by God” to practice the gift of fortunetelling.

From Seattle Times

We have lived to see the prophecies of The New Yorker writer and seer George W.S.

From New York Times

Given their simple means, they have a surprising emotional depth; their often-light-colored eyes, perhaps close to tears, are those of seers perhaps.

From New York Times

To romanticize them as seers — as when, for instance, we praise Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein for supposedly anticipating how Stein would age — is to misunderstand their role.

From Washington Post