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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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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

But even that show was more reflective of current cultural problems than prescient, not to mention disconcertingly accurate, about the dreadful directions we were heading.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

A clip from 1994 showing experts making predictions for where football would be in 10 years recently resurfaced on social media, and fans online cannot believe how prescient some of their forecasts proved to be.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

JF: “You guys make music so prescient for the times.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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