Example sentences for: prescience

How can you use “prescience” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We marvel at the prescience and lucidity of Mann, a doctor who was dedicated to treating the whole person—both the physical ills and the emotional distress attendant upon these ills, including the stigma inherited from or imposed by societies where the oppression of some fortifies the privilege of others.

  • Pundits can't resist noting the "scary prescience" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) of Barry Levinson's acclaimed satire about a fake war orchestrated to divert attention from a presidential sex scandal.

  • The girl is a naive, but her mixture of optimism and spooky prescience gives her perceptions weight, and Hiditch has a subterranean existence that's constantly at odds with his pleasantries: He might well be a psychopath who has preyed on--and dispatched--other young women.

  • The article credits the Democratic underdog with: the 1986 Tax Reform Act, prescience regarding the American high-tech boom, earnestness, an "active social conscience," and "political individuality."

  • Licklider's prescience stemmed from his pioneering research on "time-sharing"--the then-unthinkable notion that more than one person could share a computer at the same time, through terminals.


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