Example sentences for: prescient

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

  • Warhol was absolutely prescient about that, although surely the 15 minutes ideal will pale in significance as it becomes truer and truer.

  • I find it very hard to see how Bell's forecasts about the future, prescient as they may be, flow from this rather inert theory obtained by weakening that of Marx.

  • In addition to forging a link between RNA virus resistance and PTGS, this study included a remarkably prescient model for PTGS that featured an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RDR), small RNAs, and dsRNA, all of which were later found to be important for the RNAi.

  • If our speculations are supported by these data, then Marin County statistics indeed serve as a 'canary in the gold mine' as regards breast cancer incidence in educated or affluent women, and they may also be prescient as regards breast cancer mortality.

  • Among the nearly 200 pages of hagiography: 1) letters to Time from Harpo Marx, Salvador Dalí, William Randolph Hearst, and Frank Sinatra ("as usual your information stinks," Frank wrote in 1961); 2) an array of great cover images; 3) Time 's most and least prescient comments (in 1983, a prediction that the paparazzi would kill a member of the royal family, and in 1933, a prediction that Hitler was destined for obscurity); and 4) a list of Time neologisms ("socialite," "televangelist," and "World War II").


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