prescience
noun
knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
presciently
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a word derived from
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a word derived from
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prescientadjectivehaving prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight.
Example Sentences
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"The franchise model has made the TMC vulnerable," Bhattacharyya presciently wrote in 2023.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
My colleague Al Root presciently saw the market’s reaction to all this in a recent bullish story on Intel stock.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Bennett argued presciently that by kowtowing to radicals, “a great university was brought low by the very forces which modern universities came into being to oppose: ignorance, irrationality and intimidation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Maybe I wouldn’t be so tempted to evangelize if it weren’t for Cruise and director Chris McQuarrie’s ability to so presciently understand what the “Mission: Impossible” franchise can be.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
It was his familiarity with atomism which made it possible for Bacon, exceptionally and presciently, to dismiss human sensory organs as inherently defective and often misleading.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
