How to Use futurist in a Sentence

futurist

noun
  • But futurists say that script may be on the verge of a rewrite.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But futurists say that script may be on the verge of a rewrite.
    — Peter Holley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • This is true for the most classic and for the most futurist of games.
    — Joseph Young, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Much of your work as a futurist involves what’s next in high tech.
    — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • Bob's own story and his work as a futurist taught him the need to be agile, reslient and change-ready.
    — Kelly Leonard, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • And the third thing is, every day, in every moment, be a futurist.
    — S. D. Chrismon, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • Parker has always seemed to amiably float along in his retro-futurist space cloud.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The futurist design brought what’s to come into what is already.
    — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • For decades, futurists have dreamed of flying cars, with little real-world progress.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 July 2023
  • The tracks are at once both futurist and funky (a nod to the genre’s roots), and clearly designed with large dancefloors in mind.
    — Michael Sundius, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Both artists are masters of the avant-garde, Black futurists, and off-kilter divas.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
  • A lot of the grandfathers of house music and techno were inspired by the futurists.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Aquarius is the sign of the rebel, the innovator, the futurist.
    — Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2016
  • 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
  • The author, futurist and life coach Lance Wallnau is a man of firm beliefs.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • But foxery is futurist, a whiff of what’s upwind, a knack for slipping past apocalypse.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • As a futurist, my role was to provoke fresh insight and decisive action.
    — Lisa Bodell, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • One of the most influential futurists of our time is Ray Kurzweil.
    — Alida Draudt, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The answer is one that divides futurists, writers, and academics.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2019
  • But the real star of the show is the retro-futurist setting these characters inhabit.
    — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Could the time finally be right for the flying car to leave the drawing boards of futurists and take to our skies as a new form of transportation?
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2017
  • 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 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
  • Thank you to my fellow globe-trotting futurist Natalie Monbiot for the press pass.
    — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 15 May 2026
  • In the retro-futurist ’80s, Thierry Mugler made space suits and alien beauties.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • Like the Italian futurists, Diamandis is drawn to dynamism, to the promise of speed.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But Musk, at once a futurist and a salesman, has always had trouble restraining his own tendency to hype things.
    — Philip E. Ross, IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2016
  • The June 5-7 shows from Love Art City, an Afro-futurist movement house.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 4 June 2026
  • Hokkaido, then, is the perfect cultural palette cleanser from the all-out assault of the futurist capital.
    — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2025

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