precognition

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Noun
  • That is one future no amount of foreknowledge or planning can avoid.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The younger daughter had arrived with foreknowledge of the role her older sister had already claimed.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Through her radical honesty and spiritual clairvoyance, Cassidy invites readers to tune to the frequency of their own inner knowing to tap into the cosmic goodness already within them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • Spiritualism was the popularization of clairvoyance, telepathy and mediums who claimed to communicate with the dead.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The advisors entrusted with guiding substantial fortunes must combine technical expertise, strategic foresight and an ability to serve clients whose financial lives often span businesses, generations and continents.
    Riley de León, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • Whether that confidence reads, in time, as foresight or as a high-water mark is the part no term sheet can settle.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • In the opening monologue of the night — nearly verbatim for most nights on the tour — Springsteen ad-libbed some additional context, acknowledging the prescience of the evening.
    Brandon Shaw, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
  • Ten years later, the prescience of these words may be observed not just in a surprising foot race upset but in an entirely different cultural moment.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The wide-ranging records include a letter from a woman claiming that her mental telepathy indicated Earhart was still alive, and another from a man claiming her grave was located in Spain.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Getting in good positions but lacking the necessary telepathy with his new team mates, meaning his usual big end product figures (10 goals and six assists in 25 Bundesliga league appearances last season) aren’t there.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Precognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precognition. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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