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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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Just ask Leopold Aschenbrenner, whose manifesto on the future of AI, called “Situational Awareness” turned out to be extraordinarily prescient.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

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

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

But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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