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prescience

[presh-uhns, -ee-uhns, pree-shuhns, -shee-uhns] / ˈprɛʃ əns, -i əns, ˈpri ʃəns, -ʃi əns /
NOUN
foresight
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
omniscience prediction


Example Sentences

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And many are crediting his prescience in getting Chevron to stay in the country all those years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

I think the ABA is vindicated in its assessment, and deserves a little medal for prescience here.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

If warnings of an artificial-intelligence bubble turn out to be true, Danoff’s retirement may look, in retrospect, like a final act of market prescience.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Her presence on the pitch and her prescience off it - a willingness to embrace TikTok is widely credited with her huge popularity - has helped make Earps an unstoppable force.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

She had always had the makings of a legend in her: the prodigious strength, the fearlessness, the religious ardor, the visions she had in which she experienced moments of prescience.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry