prescient
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Lemssouguer made prescient trades ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic and the software industry selloff this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Andreessen’s prescient call foreshadowed 15 years of transformation and arguably trillions in value creation.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
One prescient call in 2023 from its “age of scarcity” predicted an era of cheap credit and commodities was ending and that so-called real assets and infrastructure would benefit.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
You wrote this very prescient article in the New York Times in 2017, “Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media.”
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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