prescient
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If those aren’t his priorities, Kissinger’s characterization of Bangladesh might have been prescient after all.
“He has a track record of making prescient early calls.”
In 1966 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a profound and prescient statement about health injustice, calling it “the most shocking and inhumane” form of inequality.
From Salon
Over the past year, Bannister has made at least one prescient call: He anticipated both the S&P 500 correction that played out in March and April, as well as the swift rebound that followed.
From MarketWatch
When Skarsgård took the stage to accept his award — to the tune of Usher’s “Yeah!,” for some reason — that scene from “Sentimental Value” was almost eerily prescient.
From Salon
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