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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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Liu’s big bets were an object of fascination among oil traders and brokers, many of whom tried to mimic his moves and profit on his prescience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

Maybe it’s inevitable that "Black Mirror," once upon a time a show of unnerving political and social prescience, would become not simply passé but past expiration.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

He had an uncanny prescience, as if he lived twenty seconds ahead of himself, seeing the coming trap along the rail or the route to the outside.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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