Example sentences for: prescience

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

  • When I went online in the early '90s, the first thing I thought (and posted in a chat group) was: "Oh, now someone will remake The Shop Around the Corner with e-mail"--which I mention to spotlight not my prescience but the obviousness of the idea.

  • Those seminal early papers were crisp and minimalist; they looked forward with remarkable prescience to the wild and woolly, out-of-control world of modern international macroeconomics.

  • My associate was impressed by my prescience, and we both felt free and in control as we walked off with our hands in our pockets, carrying only a few dollars, the boarding card, and a driver's license.

  • 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.

  • 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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