Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a prescient manner; with prescience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With prescience or foresight.
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- adverb In a
prescient manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with foresight
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Examples
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But as coach Mike Tomlin presciently acknowledged at the team's final offseason workouts in June, distractions are inevitable.
Distractions loom in Pittsburgh as Steelers, Big Ben start camp 2009
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In the next match (the internally corrupted match against Wigan, where Johnson 'presciently' wore a '100 goals' vest to celebrate this milestone, even though this was his first goal in over six months!), Johnson netted two pseudo-goals as the match was rigged.
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I'd obviously spent too much time watching the Island of the Blue Dolphins, or was I presciently anticipating The Odyssey?
Millie Kerr: The Little Writer Who Couldn't Spell: 30 Years of Bizarre Storytelling Millie Kerr 2011
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The novel presciently anticipated the sort of environmentalist concerns, "ecology" in the idiom of the 1960s, that have subsequently become culturally central – Dune was, indeed, the first novel with an ecological theme to have a significant impact.
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A friend of mine from Chicago who had Obama as a law professor presciently predicted that an Obama administration would be characterized by "ruthless pragmatism," not progressive idealism.
Steven Hill: Was Rahm Right About Progressives? Steven Hill 2011
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I'd obviously spent too much time watching the Island of the Blue Dolphins, or was I presciently anticipating The Odyssey?
Millie Kerr: The Little Writer Who Couldn't Spell: 30 Years of Bizarre Storytelling Millie Kerr 2011
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In this vein, right after Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem in 1967, the great Jewish-American writer I.F. Stone presciently wrote: Israel is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry.
Omar Barghouti: Peace Demands Challenging Israel's Exceptionalism Omar Barghouti 2011
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As Andy Grove so presciently articulated in the July 1, 2010, issue of Businessweek, the economies of China, Singapore, Germany, Brazil and India have demonstrated "that a plan for job creation must be the number-one objective of state economic policy; and that the government must play a strategic role in setting the priorities and arraying the forces of organization necessary to achieve this goal."
China's Superior Economic Model Andy Stern 2011
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In this vein, right after Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem in 1967, the great Jewish-American writer I.F. Stone presciently wrote: Israel is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry.
Omar Barghouti: Peace Demands Challenging Israel's Exceptionalism Omar Barghouti 2011
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Show-business history records that the American actor Peter Falk, who has died aged 83, made his stage debut the year before he left high school, presciently cast as a detective.
Peter Falk obituary 2011
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