Example sentences for: prescient

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

  • One prescient pre-9/11 analysis of an aircraft plot was written by a Justice Department trial attorney.

  • Chatterbox likes "The Johnson Presidency," "Sexpot Dome," and "Nookiegate," the last so reminiscent of New York Observer writer Philip Weiss' prescient admonition to the press: "Follow the nookie."

  • Looking over your own summary of his 1973 projections of what U.S. society in the year 2000 would look like, one would say that they were, by and large, pretty prescient.

  • Indeed, it was with some excitement that I opened this new edition of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society , hoping to recover the rigorous and prescient thinking behind the cliché.

  • So let's get the gossip out of the way: Maslin was attractive; early on she dated Steven Spielberg; she got married to Jon Landau, a fellow rock critic who attended a small concert by a dynamic young man from New Jersey and wrote a famously prescient piece announcing, "I saw rock and roll future last night, and its name is Bruce Springsteen," and eventually quit his writing job to manage the Boss.


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