prescient

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Goodman was among the prescient few to buy from the “Candle” series, hanging her 3-foot-long version in her Manhattan dining room for decades after buying it shortly after it was painted in 1982.

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

Virginia's posture toward assumption was now making his prophecy look prescient.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis