prescient
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Prescient stock picks and whooshes of inflows have vaulted its assets under management to more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
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
Prescient of sorrow, almost prophetic of evil, he opened the cottage door, and the first person his eye encountered was Morley.
From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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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