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prescient

[ US /ˈpɹɛsiənt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈiːsi‍ənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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