prescient
Example Sentences
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After a string of prescient stock picks, including memory-chip makers SK Hynix and Sandisk, his assets under management swelled, placing the firm among the fastest-growing hedge funds in years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Yale Law professor Reva Siegel laid out this fact in a renowned law review article months after the decision came down, and her observation has only grown more prescient with time.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
What a perfectly prescient metaphor for how these fawning chatbots use up all of the stores of our compassion.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 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
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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