prescient
Example Sentences
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The airline’s 2012 acquisition of a Pennsylvania refinery has been called both prescient and pointless.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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
With all the advantages of hindsight, Jefferson’s strategic assessment of 1796 appears more and more prescient: Whoever followed Washington was probably doomed to failure.
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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