prescient
Example Sentences
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Lemssouguer made prescient trades ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic and the software industry selloff this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Taking the opposite side of the expressed emotion telegraphed by the VIX has often been prescient.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
One prescient call in 2023 from its “age of scarcity” predicted an era of cheap credit and commodities was ending and that so-called real assets and infrastructure would benefit.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
You wrote this very prescient article in the New York Times in 2017, “Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media.”
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
In retrospect, that statement seems prescient, but it merely reflected the mood already widespread among the young in Durham’s black community as America stood poised on the cusp of a new and turbulent decade.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing prescient
Power Prefix: pre-
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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