prescient
Example Sentences
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Yale Law professor Reva Siegel laid out this fact in a renowned law review article months after the decision came down, and her observation has only grown more prescient with time.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
But it turned out to be one of the more prescient observations anyone made about this era of Chinese economic policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
What a perfectly prescient metaphor for how these fawning chatbots use up all of the stores of our compassion.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Around the same time, several anonymous users reportedly earned $2.4 million combined by making remarkably prescient bets on the Iran war, prompting concern in Congress about insider trading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
In retrospect, that statement seems prescient, but it merely reflected the mood already widespread among the young in Durham’s black community as America stood poised on the cusp of a new and turbulent decade.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing prescient
Power Prefix: pre-
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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