prescient
Example Sentences
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“I’m really hopeful that we are not prescient about some of these events,” Kripke told me.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
Target’s decision to invest in groceries seems prescient.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
JF: “You guys make music so prescient for the times.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
In retrospect, that statement seems prescient, but it merely reflected the mood already widespread among the young in Durham’s black community as America stood poised on the cusp of a new and turbulent decade.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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