How to Use prescience in a Sentence

prescience

noun
  • Her prescience as an investor is impressive.
  • He predicted their response with amazing prescience.
  • But there’s a lot to be said for the prescience of the writers.
    Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • Once again, there was some irony and, perhaps, prescience as well.
    James Hibberd, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • But pardon us for taking at least a bit of grim pride in our prescience.
    Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Indulging in the grotesque is what has given these films their prescience.
    Blair McClendon, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Biden instead took credit for his prescience about the virus.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Brooker’s prescience had struck again.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
  • That, along with the prescience of their vows, was unexpected.
    Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And a film that felt at once hopeful and foreboding now takes on a dreadful prescience.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The film's prescience is as eerie as its conclusions are disturbing.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Seventy-five years later, those warnings have gained a new prescience.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 May 2022
  • At a certain point, Sharp Objects is a victim of its own prescience.
    Vogue, 3 July 2018
  • That allows gamblers to profit from their prescience, but also broadens the scope for bribery.
    Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Franklin's middle name is Forest, which suggests parental prescience.
    Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Melange also conveys a kind of prescience and makes faster-than-light travel practical.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
  • That would bring this class to 28 or 29 in total, in large part thanks to Chang’s prescience.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Flewellen can’t help but be inspired by the eloquence of that observation, and awestruck by its prescience.
    Tyrone Beasonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This isn’t prescience, but rather a deep sensitivity to what’s going on—and where.
    Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Carlson never went that far, but Murdoch didn’t forget his prescience.
    Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But whether by sheer luck or keen prescience, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is the movie for right now.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In a bit of prescience, Wallace explains how consumerist culture can prime a state for fascism.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Many love the artist’s original concept that offers both nostalgia and a creepy prescience.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • If the postwar boom made Marx seem obsolete, recent decades have confirmed his prescience.
    Robin Varghese, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
  • Viewing it now, the movie’s influence and prescience are more obvious than ever.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • But other years, the prize has been more noteworthy for controversy than prescience.
    Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But The Simpsons avoids noting the song’s prescience and chooses cheap mockery.
    Armond White, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
  • But Blade Runner stood out not just for its influence but for its possible prescience.
    Brian Raftery, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2017
  • His prescience to trade up and select quarterback Patrick Mahomes with the No.
    oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017

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