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US
/ˈpɹɛsiənt/
]
[ UK /pɹˈiːsiənt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈiːsiənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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perceiving the significance of events before they occur
extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations
How To Use prescient In A Sentence
- It's a little bit scary being such a gifted, prescient individual.
- That proved to be prescient as Busch won and Jeff Gordon finished second — noting postrace on Fox that Busch was "so strong on restarts. Kentucky Derby show has winners across board
- If you've got some last minute prognostications or thoughts on the subject, now is the time to spit them out so you can appear to be astute and prescient later on.
- That anxiety has not proven to be prescient. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a prescient point: 10 years on we got the Battle of Seattle.
- Orwell's attacks on pacifism now seem remarkably prescient.
- Bultmann had in mind elements of a prescientific worldview in general, but certainly the suggestion that, in order to be a Christian, one must accept young-earth creationism or intelligent design, is not unrelated to this. Archive 2007-09-01
- An almost prescient autofocus instantly zeroes in on your quarry, then continuously adjusts to stay locked on to that charging moose until you nail the shot.
- Navtej Dhillon, a former Brookings Institution fellow who led a project to study youth in the Middle East, spoke presciently in 2008 about the challenges facing the region.
- McCarthy's long-term objective is to formalize common sense reasoning, the prescientific reasoning that is used in dealing with everyday problems. Logic and Artificial Intelligence