prescience

[US]/ˈpresiəns/
[UK]/ˈpresiəns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. foresight; anticipation.

Example Sentences

She demonstrated remarkable prescience in predicting the market trends.

His prescience allowed him to anticipate the outcome of the negotiation.

The novel's author seemed to have a sense of prescience about future technologies.

Investors were impressed by the CEO's prescience in identifying profitable opportunities.

The scientist's prescience was evident in his accurate predictions of climate change.

Her prescience in selecting the right team members contributed to the project's success.

The politician's prescience in addressing social issues garnered public support.

The CEO's prescience saved the company from a potential financial crisis.

The author's prescience in writing about current events made the book highly relevant.

The professor's prescience in recommending new research methods led to groundbreaking discoveries.

Real-world Examples

While people have noted her prescience, Butler was also interested in re-examining history.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

The familiarity of that face, the features out of numberless visions in his earliest prescience, shocked Paul to stillness.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

An honest love has its own prescience, and knows that love begets love.

Source: Eugénie Grandet

The prescience, he realized, was an illumination that incorporated the limits of what it revealed—at once a source of accuracy and meaningful error.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

He felt himself touched briefly by his powers of prescience, seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

Paul, aware of some of this from the way the time nexus boiled, understood at last why he had never seen Fenring along the webs of prescience.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

" He was listening." Accepting the words, Chani was touched by some of the prescience that haunted Paul, and she knew a thing-yet-to-be as though it already had occurred.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

It gave him a new understanding of his prescience, and he saw the source of blind time, the source of error in it, with an immediate sensation of fear.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

He would walk along groping in the air, although he passedbetween objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if he were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

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