How to Use visionary in a Sentence

visionary

1 of 2 adjective
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  • She is known as a visionary leader.
  • He had a visionary experience.
  • This is what the work of a visionary filmmaker looks like.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • And lo and behold, new life was breathed into Allende, the visionary prophet of a new order.
    — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Signing Ekitike, in fact, is seen as the sort of visionary transfer that could aid the club for the coming decade.
    — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • In our century, that visionary role appears to have passed from the artists to the engineers, to Zuckerberg and his ilk.
    — Dean Kissick, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • In each of these episodes, two new pairs of visionary Queens go wig-to-wig in a competition to throw the coolest themed dinner party on a dime.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 9 June 2022
  • His visionary work changed the scope of film storytelling and created new ways for adults and children to dream.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Lucky Jupiter and visionary Neptune connect in fluid Pisces for the first time since 1856, inspiring us to take a leap of faith and grow our dreams.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Why: Off-White was, of course, created by the late Virgil Abloh, a visionary whose ideas could not be contained to one medium.
    — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 8 June 2022
  • Almost a decade after the visionary filmmaker’s last entry in the genre, X is perhaps his finest work to date.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Both were shown the door as CEOs despite clear visionary qualities.
    — Tom Davenport, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But in that era there also were visionary investors who helped to grow the sport among women, Allison said.
    — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The other part, of course, was that Lucy proved to be a physical comedian with a visionary spirit of kooky chaos.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Perhaps the most visionary statesman of the 21st century, Shinzo Abe was shot and killed in the city of Nara while delivering a speech on the campaign trail.
    — The Editors, National Review, 9 July 2022
  • As the Mouse House moves forward without its visionary leader, Chapek must refire the creative engines to grow Disney+.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Now, many of them have expressed sadness over the demise of a skilled businessman and a visionary entrepreneur.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Scott Kirby, whom Isom replaced and who is now the face of the U.S. airline industry, has been visionary and outspoken.
    — Ted Reed, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The sculpture has been in place since 1995, when it was installed by North Carolina farmer and visionary artist Vollis Simpson.
    — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, baltimoresun.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Gaspar Noé is a visionary whose visceral films will change you, and Irreversible might be the best example of this.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2022
  • Guess which one visionary stop-motion artist Will Vinton would have preferred.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Musk’s admirers herald him as a visionary thrusting the world into the future.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In principle, a visionary mathematician might have held a snapshot of the set in their mind’s eye hundreds of years ago.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Your visionary views might be more drastic than the crowd is comfortable with, so preparing some rebuttals would be a good idea -- just in case!
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Within months the designer was heralded as a sort of visionary.
    — Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Solen comments on how visionary Whack is, having very specific ideas and scenes in mind for her unique visuals.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2021
  • And tone, especially a fresh one, lives on a razor’s edge that can only be seen with an organic, visionary eye.
    — Angela L. Harvey, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
  • Until the unraveling of Theranos, Holmes was hailed in the media as a visionary whose ideas would change the way in which ailments were diagnosed.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
  • No matter what the movie gets right or wrong, the result is a visionary masterpiece that scored 10 Oscar nominations.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2022
  • Musk has been adored in China for years, with some of the country’s most prominent entrepreneurs praising him as visionary and showing off their Tesla cars.
    — Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2021
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visionary

2 of 2 noun
  • She's a visionary in her field.
  • Only one of my visionary cross-field balls sailed straight out of play.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Holder sought out the offbeat, the untutored, and the visionary.
    — John Beardsley, ELLE Decor, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Yet, for his idea to succeed, Rice needed a visionary to head the art program.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • Chris Hemsworth plays Steve Abnesti, described as a brilliant visionary who runs a state-of-the-art prison.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 June 2022
  • Politicians, from the governor on down, hailed him as a visionary, a hero.
    — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Here, the real visionaries of 2023. Don't miss the next big beauty sale.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Scott was the visionary, and Arianne was the one who could execute that vision.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Jobs’ visit to PARC became the stuff of legend, a tale of a brilliant visionary seeing the future of computing for the first time.
    — Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The Getty hails him as a visionary now with 104 of his works currently on display at the museum.
    — George Levines, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Gravel is known as the visionary behind the Atlanta Beltline.
    — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Onoda was not a creative visionary who wanted to build an opera house in the Amazon.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 2 June 2022
  • Lena, as a visionary, always pushes for unique stories that won’t get told.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The visionary Carson is depicted in a 1965 bronze by Una Hanbury.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Many admirers note that Carter was a visionary for putting solar panels on the White House, even as some criticized him for it at the time.
    — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Four showstoppers of the ten works on display at Fort Gansevoort gallery power the New York debut of this 54-year old visionary.
    — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Silicon Valley operates on many myths, but one of them is the idea of the founder as a visionary who can see key trends coming years if not decades out.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But here, at last, is the real Elon Musk: not a visionary, but a ruddy-cheeked, undersexed basement dweller—the kind of guy who, come to think about it, would be a big fan of Elon Musk.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Grant is one of the unsung stars of retailing, the kind of fearless visionary who has supported so many of the most creative designers of the last few decades.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But while a16z may have dodged the FTX bullet, the firm’s reputation as a crypto visionary is far from secure.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • However, that’s just the beginning of what this team of Esports visionaries hopes to achieve.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Currier believes the three-person unicorn will be led by a founder who has the same visionary ideas that propel the most successful founders.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • And the life story of a sports car visionary and his tangled family life is tailor-made for awards attention.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Really a firebrand and visionary artist who could see the future and work diligently to try to make that future real.
    — Garret K. Woodward, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Mere weeks later, the avant-garde visionary died, taken down by a simple infection.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This year’s design visionary award went to Seymour Chwast, who has worked in graphic design for more than half a century.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Palestinian Communists were a very small group, but visionary.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Fortunately, this one-of-a-kind visionary is still going strong.
    — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • For over twenty years, Glenda Bailey stood at the helm of Harper’s Bazaar as an industry visionary.
    — Marley Gifford, Town & Country, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The book carefully grounds af Klint, who is heralded these days for being a visionary far ahead of her time, in the solid realities of her life.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022

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