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prescient

adjective as in perceptive

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As increasingly harsh restrictions on women get enacted in red states — bounty laws allowing any interested person to sue women for having abortions, restrictions on travel from anti-abortion states to obtain abortions, the threat of prosecutions of women who experienced miscarriages, and more — her words seem increasingly prescient.

Sinwar proved prescient in his mistrust of any electronic devices – which were used as a devastating weapon last month against operatives of Hezbollah.

In the decade since the vote, that has proved prescient.

From BBC

For a while, they looked prescient.

From Slate

But most naggingly, as fashioned by Reitman and screenwriter Gil Kenan, this tribute is all too prescient about its countdown to history: Much of the dialogue is of the “You’re going down as one of the greats” variety.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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