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Recent Examples of precognition
Ancient oracles claim to have precognition, an insight into the future.
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Ancient oracles claim to have precognition, an insight into the future.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
But in behavioral science, many scholars point to an article published in a mainstream psychology journal in 2011 claiming evidence of precognition — that is, the ability to sense the future.
—Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
But instead of rearranging itself around Barker’s research into precognition, the paradigm shifted away from him and snapped more firmly into place.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
The show enjoyed a one-two punch (or kick) of precognition.
—Mike Bloom, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
During his time in Aberfan, Barker tactfully but doggedly set about recording examples of precognition that came his way.
—Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
More daringly, Barker thought that proving the existence of precognition would overturn the basic human understanding of linear time.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
Joe Lynch: Those people should be tracked down and forced to reckon with their lack of precognition.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Ancient oracles claim to have precognition, an insight into the future.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
But in behavioral science, many scholars point to an article published in a mainstream psychology journal in 2011 claiming evidence of precognition — that is, the ability to sense the future.
—Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
But instead of rearranging itself around Barker’s research into precognition, the paradigm shifted away from him and snapped more firmly into place.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
The show enjoyed a one-two punch (or kick) of precognition.
—Mike Bloom, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
During his time in Aberfan, Barker tactfully but doggedly set about recording examples of precognition that came his way.
—Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
More daringly, Barker thought that proving the existence of precognition would overturn the basic human understanding of linear time.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
Joe Lynch: Those people should be tracked down and forced to reckon with their lack of precognition.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precognition
Noun
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Your ability to adapt and act with integrity, not clairvoyance, is the ultimate safeguard of your brand’s future.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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But in that moment, Queen Genevieve was born, a player whose clairvoyance could summon her enemies’ words from the ether.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Companies that approach this issue with the requisite level of rigor, foresight and strategic intent will not only mitigate those risks but also strengthen stakeholder trust and operational resilience.—
Ronak D. Desai,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Drainage is minimal, though this is not a big problem thanks to the foresight of those who, when building a ground that first opened in 1863, dug down almost 20 feet on the popular banking side.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Less than 10 years later his prescience is disturbingly spot-on.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Twenty years later, A Day Without a Mexican is having a second life — streaming on Amazon Prime and being referenced all over social media for its eerie prescience.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The next year, Schmeisser marched into a large conference room at Army Research Office headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to pitch a research project to investigate synthetic telepathy for soldiers.—
Adam Piore,
Discover Magazine,
1 Mar. 2012
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These detector settings allow Alice and Bob to ask the particles different questions; an additional trick to throw off their apparent telepathy.—
Daniel Garisto,
Scientific American,
6 Oct. 2022
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“Precognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precognition. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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