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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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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

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

Which brings me to Star Trek, perhaps the most prescient External link of the major sci‑fi franchises.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 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

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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