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prescient

adjective as in perceptive

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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

I sort of love this part of it because this feels like an isolated story in a moment in history, but it could not be more prescient now.

From Salon

“There is growing concern that this year’s elections could lead to — or even be decided by — political violence,” the center’s founder, Garen Wintemute, wrote in a prescient essay in the Hill last month.

Schlamme also didn’t know just how prescient these episodes would be.

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

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