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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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Target’s decision to invest in groceries seems prescient.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

They can be prescient, too, like when Zohran Mamdani offered, days before winning the New York Democratic mayoral primary: “I should be the mayor.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

It was a prescient review given the torrent of public criticism from his own colleagues that was about to be begin.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Again, that feels like an eerily prescient message for our own time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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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