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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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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




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