prescient
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Nick Florko doesn’t want to brag or anything, but more than a year ago he wrote an article that has come to seem prescient.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Around the same time, several anonymous users reportedly earned $2.4 million combined by making remarkably prescient bets on the Iran war, prompting concern in Congress about insider trading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
There’s a sweet AC outlet connection, too—a prescient feature from the pre-USB era that’s great for charging my gadgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Those runs led to some prescient analysis from Toni Nadal, who famously coached his nephew Rafa to 16 of his major titles.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Grand visions, even ones that prove as prescient as Washington’s, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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