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prescient

[presh-uhnt, ‑ee-uhnt, pree-shuhnt, ‑shee-uhnt] / ˈprɛʃ ənt, ‑i ənt, ˈpri ʃənt, ‑ʃi ənt /
ADJECTIVE
perceptive
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Then she considers a question that didn’t feel as prescient then: Does she feel like it broke the cycle she’s had with Mortensen?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Was it a prescient warning or a bunch of hot air?

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

Indeed, prescient sci-fi has been modeling an “artificial general intelligence-machines-take-over-the-world” moment for many decades.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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