prescient

Example Sentences

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In Gaddis’s prescient hands, the American workplace isn’t built of bricks or balance sheets, but words.

From The Wall Street Journal

Du Bois has never looked more usefully prescient than in the present, when Otherness, in its many varieties, is at once widely acknowledged and under vicious, reactive siege.

From New York Times

“The framers were prescient in drafting considerations that protect the environment,” said Jim Nelson, a retired judge who sat on the Montana Supreme Court for 19 years.

From New York Times

Ma, whose 2018 debut novel “Severance” proved eerily prescient in hinging on a global pandemic, won the fiction award for her surreal short story collection.

From New York Times

Burns, who is best-known as the writer of the scarily prescient pandemic film “Contagion,” has a long history of interest in the environment and climate change.

From Washington Post