prescient Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈpres.i.ənt]
  • Us [ ˈpres.i.ənt]

Meaning of prescient In English

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  • Businesses may make their own agreements irrespective of the law, but they always act (in his prescient words) in its shadow.

  • The author's projections have in certain cases proved prescient and in others been negated by rapidly changing circumstances.

  • I especially enjoyed reading about the prescient, if largely overlooked, contributions of very early investigators in the field.

  • People may try to anticipate the future, and we can even predict the future in some cases, but no one is literally prescient.

  • This prescient war-torn oratorio should enter the repertoire as an apt epic of our time.

  • As had happened with other problems in bioethics (and with genetic engineering most notably), the speculative discussions prior to important scientific breakthroughs were remarkably prescient.

  • The other adjectives used to modify variation arise in the context of selection in conceptual change, but no one thinks that people, including scientists, are prescient.

  • Britt's testimony was more prescient than he let on.

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