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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 same result using active management requires superior valuation techniques, prescience in forecasting innovation and its addressable market, and conviction in sizing each bet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

Her presence on the pitch and her prescience off it - a willingness to embrace TikTok is widely credited with her huge popularity - has helped make Earps an unstoppable force.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

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

She had always had the makings of a legend in her: the prodigious strength, the fearlessness, the religious ardor, the visions she had in which she experienced moments of prescience.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry




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