prescient
Example Sentences
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After a prescient bet during the global financial crisis, De Leon expanded to ventures many investors may consider unglamorous, such as dental, veterinary offices and insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Again, that feels like an eerily prescient message for our own time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
A clip from 1994 showing experts making predictions for where football would be in 10 years recently resurfaced on social media, and fans online cannot believe how prescient some of their forecasts proved to be.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
“That turned out to be a prescient move, as oil prices have since declined.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Virginia's posture toward assumption was now making his prophecy look prescient.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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