prescient
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Prescient as Jerry Jones was on that day at training camp, even he couldn’t have predicted this.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
Prescient as can be, Thomas said he’d prepared one old-fashioned phone of the sort Horne used in each end zone.
From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2018
Prescient readers might catch sounds here and there of the drama that lies ahead, but everyone else will probably jump out of this slow-moving plot before it reaches the main event.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2018
Jerry Irvine, the chief information officer of Prescient Solutions, puts it bluntly: “Do not use public Wi-Fi. Do not configure Wi-Fi networks or Bluetooth to automatically connect to your device.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2017
All your magic is, in truth, Pure foresight and faith of youth— You're a child, yet even so, You're a sage, in embryo— Prescient poet—artist—great As your dreams anticipate.—
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb
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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