prescient
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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
After a prescient bet during the global financial crisis, De Leon expanded to ventures many investors may consider unglamorous, such as dental, veterinary offices and insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
“I’m really hopeful that we are not prescient about some of these events,” Kripke told me.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
It was a prescient review given the torrent of public criticism from his own colleagues that was about to be begin.
From BBC • May 12, 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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