prescient
Example Sentences
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Again, that feels like an eerily prescient message for our own time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
It was a prescient review given the torrent of public criticism from his own colleagues that was about to be begin.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
But even that show was more reflective of current cultural problems than prescient, not to mention disconcertingly accurate, about the dreadful directions we were heading.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
In his prescient epilogue, Mr. Overhoff contends that the divide between Washington and Frederick is no “relic of transatlantic history” but an instructive guide to the present and future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Some prescient part of him saw the two paths diverging in the yellow wood.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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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