prescient

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Watching it now, the performance feels disturbingly prescient, offering a glimpse of the managerial mindset that would eventually reshape American media into a pure war for attention.

From Los Angeles Times

“Here Lies Love,” which opens Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum, three years after its Broadway debut, is arriving in downtown L.A. at a prescient moment.

From Los Angeles Times

If those aren’t his priorities, Kissinger’s characterization of Bangladesh might have been prescient after all.

From The Wall Street Journal

“He has a track record of making prescient early calls.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1966 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a profound and prescient statement about health injustice, calling it “the most shocking and inhumane” form of inequality.

From Salon