Example sentences for: prescient

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

  • Economists couldn't predict the Asia crisis; why should they suddenly have become more prescient?

  • The prescient Sam Donaldson wisely took the weekend off.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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