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prescient

adjective as in perceptive

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I’ve been thinking a lot about your prescient book “American Midnight,” and the crackdown on civil rights and freedoms in the post-World War I years.

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Waller has proven a prescient economist with intellectually coherent policy arguments.

This is the little-known but prescient speech that Saladin Ambar expertly parses and intriguingly reinterprets in “Murder on the Mississippi.”

Rather filed an unsuccessful $70 million lawsuit against the network, and in the years that followed, he delivered a series of prescient warnings about the chilling effects of political appeasement.

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We’ve reached a point in history where many of the darker speculative assumptions about our collective future have become disconcertingly prescient.

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