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as in foresight
the special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur
most believers would probably agree that complete prescience is one of God's attributes
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as in providence
concern or preparation for the future
parents who had the prescience to make everything in their house childproof before the arrival of their first baby
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Recent Examples of prescience
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.
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Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
With Season 7 now on Netflix — after the questionable prescience and potency of Season 6 — IndieWire is updating our ranking of every installment.
—Steve Greene, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
Just a few months after that first season concluded, the Real Housewives franchise was launched, followed by The Kardashians two years later, only confirming The Comeback’s remarkable prescience.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex frameworks.
—Boris Kreiman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
With Season 7 now on Netflix — after the questionable prescience and potency of Season 6 — IndieWire is updating our ranking of every installment.
—Steve Greene, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
Just a few months after that first season concluded, the Real Housewives franchise was launched, followed by The Kardashians two years later, only confirming The Comeback’s remarkable prescience.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex frameworks.
—Boris Kreiman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prescience
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The shoot had originally been scheduled for October 2024, because Aris’ wife was due to give birth over the summer, but lead producer George Schoucair at Abbout Productions had the foresight to move the production date forward.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Companies that redesign their operating models capture outsized gains, resetting expectations for cycle times, agility, foresight, and resilience in their industries.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Aeneid has a special relevance for the United States, a country founded by immigrants who fled from earlier homelands, often believing that divine providence justified their claim on a land already inhabited by many distinct groups of indigenous peoples.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Does providence foreordain or do characters have a say?—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
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To bring this vision to life, Everton turned to Populous, the sports and entertainment design firm whose extensive back catalogue includes the likes of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Wembley and The Sphere in Las Vegas.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Working with Brian Rose, who spent the last five years trying to recreate the film with charcoal drawings, physical models of the sets, and researching storyboards and screenplay drafts, Showrunner will spend next two years to get as close as possible to Welles’ vision.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, Absolutely was a project of divination, of spiritual conjuring.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug. 2025
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Recently, the method of divination has had another resurgence in modern day.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Even something simple at its face value — the new album cover image, for example — has such forethought and reasoning behind the choice.—
H. Vanbiber,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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Because platform engineering is a significant change, an additional degree of forethought is sure to go along way.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Prescience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescience. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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