(n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I didn’t know that Rachel’s early writing - before she even thought of travelling to the Middle East, from her days as a schoolgirl, through college, to life working at a mental-health centre in her home town of Olympia, Washington - would be similarly fascinating, and contain such elements of chilling prescience.
(2) Arguments of considerable ferocity will arise as to whether a new piece of equipment would have been bought anyway with the risk that the government ends up funnelling billions of dollars to companies to subsidise their profits without achieving any real additional cuts to emissions,” you told parliament, with remarkable prescience.
(3) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” With grim prescience, she even talked about how shooting Jewish people displayed attackers’ vulnerability, because it showed they felt unable to sit down and talk.
(4) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
(5) With extraordinary prescience he distinguished emotional states associated with the suppression of digestion from those that were accompanied by accelerated gastric secretory and motor function.
(6) With what now looks like great prescience, Labour blogger Dan Hodges responded on Twitter: "Maurice Glasman has the black spot of Watson upon him.
(7) David Lammy, MP for Tottenham paid tribute to his friend's intellectual range and prescience: "He was one of those 'cut-through' academics that could write in an incredibly erudite, Ivy-league way but who could also explain things in a way that could be understood by the ordinary man and woman.
(8) In general, studies of coagulation proteins under defined conditions have demonstrated the prescience of Davie and Ratnoff and MacFarlane in their proposals of the coagulation cascade.
(9) Writing of gilded age monopolists and robber barons, Twain's prescience is remarkable: he denounces Jay Gould, the financier and speculator, for example, as "the mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country".
(10) If Harriet Harman decided against running because of the stream of vitriol that might be unleashed, well – you can only admire her prescience.
(11) "The first game can give you a picture," Paolo Di Canio said beforehand with some prescience.
(12) Whether through prescience or wild optimism, Lord Porter claims to have foreseen the result of this year’s general election.
(13) Is his prescience born out of prophecy, or is it the product of something else?
(14) She replied: “The little party always gets smashed!” Former MP for Sheffield Hallam Nick Clegg is testament to Merkel’s prescience on that one, and I would not be in the least surprised if May is in fact attempting to assemble some kind of informal Brexit coalition with Labour, so that when the inevitable leaks about shambolic negotiations arrive on the 6 o’clock news, poor old Jeremy Corbyn will be on hand to take the blame.
(15) But what is clear is that Birkenstock successfully, and with prescience, identified the burgeoning interest in self-improvement through accessorising.
(16) Hence OCSC president Rawlins knew the biggest test of his prescience lay in convincing the local powers-that-be of a public-private funding partnership, along with proving their own financial bona fides.
(17) Brian Baxter writes: With uncharacteristic prescience, Bafta crowned Paul Scofield as best newcomer for his screen debut in That Lady.
(18) While the name FutureDairy is freighted with prescience for an era yet to be reached, it is, in fact, already arriving and transforming the economies and lifestyles of the early adopters.
(19) Gore's prescience Environment journalism has come a long way since 1975 when Geoffrey Lean – then of the Observer, now of the Telegraph – became the first dedicated correspondent.
(20) Supporters of the administration have pointed to the prescience of the speech, while critics argue it has in part become a self-fulfilling prophecy by serving to isolate Tehran and Pyongyang.
Prescient
Definition:
(a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the prescient words of a memo written in 1949 by Sir Henry Tizard, the distinguished military scientist, the trouble with Britain having the atom bomb was that it made the country blind to reality.
(2) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
(3) Most, though, opt for that dreadfully prescient quote, given a few years before he died in a Porsche with a friend, doing 90mph, and after he had shot about half his scenes for the new F&F movie.
(4) Indeed, his 1914 satire on the fashion for eugenic family planning ( The White Hope ) was oddly prescient.
(5) "There may be little point in spending many millions of pounds simply to convert an unpleasant but visible marine poison into another kind of poison that is insidious and entirely unknown in its effects," he presciently wrote.
(6) Artists like Duchamp were so prescient here – the idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience comes to it and adds their own interpretation, and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle.
(7) It ended up being a prescient move: the game got out of reach early as the Lakers scored just four points in the game's first five minutes and were already down 18 points by halftime.
(8) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ukip’s rise in the east of England: a world turned upside down – video He then made this prescient statement: “We have got much to sort out in the party … Policy is part of the answer.
(10) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
(11) The convergence, in such a short space of time, of the controversy surrounding the banning of "kill the boer" and the murder of Terre'Blanche is both tragic and prescient; it encapsulates the death of optimism in South Africa .
(12) In today’s context, at the end of a week in which Hillary Clinton has yet again found herself face-to-face with a sceptical press demanding answers about her use of a private email address while working as America’s top diplomat, her robust words almost two decades ago sound uncannily prescient.
(13) Picking Enotiades for the job – rather than Gaye – proved to be a prescient choice.
(14) Someone should point out, in these days when the constitution is so constantly and pietistically invoked, that political parties are not mentioned in the constitution, and that the prescient founders warned emphatically against them for reasons that should be clear to us now.
(15) Again, back in 2010, it seemed shocking; now, in the midst of a so-called rape culture, it seems horrifyingly prescient.
(16) Calling pensions a "broken market", McClymont presciently predicted that the government would never stand up to this greatest of vested interests.
(17) One slogan, however, was to prove particularly prescient: 'When the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble.'
(18) With the benefit of nearly 250 days of hindsight, Mariano Rajoy’s words a few hours after Spain’s most significant election since its return to democracy appear utterly prescient – if a little on the optimistic side.
(19) The big society revolution, he warned presciently, "would not happen by itself".
(20) Given that the current US president disputes the hard evidence of climate change, I can’t think of a more prescient play for today – one which proves that 30s theatre had depth-charge impact.