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prescient

adjective as in perceptive

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The stock market is likely “closer to the bottom,” after Thursday’s washout, and investors should buy the dip, says Wall Street’s prescient and biggest bull, Tom Lee.

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But it’s Stanton’s vision of the dystopian future in “WALL-E,” which he co-wrote and directed, that has been looked on as prescient.

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” her prescient novel of totalitarian dictatorship, began with the group hanging scene, which was shifted to the back of the book.

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The prediction wasn’t just provocative — it was prescient.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about your prescient book “American Midnight,” and the crackdown on civil rights and freedoms in the post-World War I years.

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