prescient
Example Sentences
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Those runs led to some prescient analysis from Toni Nadal, who famously coached his nephew Rafa to 16 of his major titles.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Target’s decision to invest in groceries seems prescient.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Again, that feels like an eerily prescient message for our own time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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
In some cases, we will find that Eratosthenes was prescient in his thinking; in others, that he was sloppy or mistaken, but that his errors had the fortuitous effect of canceling each other out.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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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