prescient
Example Sentences
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Goodman was among the prescient few to buy from the “Candle” series, hanging her 3-foot-long version in her Manhattan dining room for decades after buying it shortly after it was painted in 1982.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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
“It felt prescient then,” Messineo said of engaging Martinez last year, “and I think even more so now.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
Olanna had been expecting the harsh sound for so long that a prescient shiver went through her just before she heard it.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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