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prescience

[presh-uhns, -ee-uhns, pree-shuhns, -shee-uhns] / ˈprɛʃ əns, -i əns, ˈpri ʃəns, -ʃi əns /
NOUN
foresight
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
omniscience prediction


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The critic Virgil Thomson summed up Martinů’s manner with unusual prescience upon the New York premiere of his Symphony No. 1 in 1942.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

I think the ABA is vindicated in its assessment, and deserves a little medal for prescience here.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

If warnings of an artificial-intelligence bubble turn out to be true, Danoff’s retirement may look, in retrospect, like a final act of market prescience.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Through her decades-long career, Heimann has demonstrated a kind of prescience that distills personality into character-defining costume, often creating iconic looks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

“What will happen when...enlightenment actually comes to pass and the facts of heredity are...commonly known?” he wrote, with striking prescience, in 1905.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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