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prescient

[presh-uhnt, ‑ee-uhnt, pree-shuhnt, ‑shee-uhnt] / ˈprɛʃ ənt, ‑i ənt, ˈpri ʃənt, ‑ʃi ənt /
ADJECTIVE
perceptive
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Just ask Leopold Aschenbrenner, whose manifesto on the future of AI, called “Situational Awareness” turned out to be extraordinarily prescient.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Target’s decision to invest in groceries seems prescient.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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

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

In some cases, we will find that Eratosthenes was prescient in his thinking; in others, that he was sloppy or mistaken, but that his errors had the fortuitous effect of canceling each other out.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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