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- noun Plural form of
precog .
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Examples
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This film dealt with the pythonic police as prescient "precogs," able to know that someone was about to commit a crime.
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Sadly, both novel and film are not readily implementable; the film, for example, is set in the year 2054 in which three mutated humans with precognition powers, known as 'precogs', lead the arrests.
Kos RSS Feed 2009
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- Minority Report precogs predict the news three weeks in advance, fool readers into thinking they have killed someone
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Preemptive strikes are just defense as practiced by precogs.
Boing Boing 2008
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- Minority Report precogs predict the news three weeks in advance, fool readers into thinking they have killed someone
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Are they some sort of hyperbreed, like the precogs in Minority Report?
Are the Pitt-Jolie’s Actually Really Gorgeous, Coked-Up Vampires? | Best Week Ever 2007
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Can we get those precogs working on something useful?
THIS HISTORIC PRESIDENCY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT » Sociological Images 2009
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Guild navigators having to ingest a substance which causes them to magically become limited precogs in order to make the jump work?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Six Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time 2009
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With the help of three “precogs” the division is able to identify people who are about to commit murder, then arrest and confine them to detention camps before any atrocities take place.
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick 2008
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For example, the precogs are referred to as “three babbling, retarded idiots.”
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick 2008
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