| word | prescient |
|---|---|
| definition | Having or showing advance knowledge of what is going to happen. |
| eg_sentence | For years she had read the Wall Street Journal every morning, looking for prescient warnings about crashes, crises, and catastrophes on the horizon. |
| explanation | Being truly prescient would require supernatural powers. But well-informed people may have such good judgment as to appear prescient, and prescient is often used to mean “having good foresight.” Some newspaper columnists may seem prescient in their predictions, but we can't help suspecting that any apparent prescience is usually the result of leaks from people with inside knowledge |
| IPA | ˈprɛsiənt |
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