How To Use Prescient In A Sentence
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He's made some bad ones, to be sure - he was notably burned by telecom companies during the dotcom bust - but over the course of a few decades of investing, Gilder has become known as a prescient technophile.
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In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia?
Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
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The McKeans must have been prescient about the future of conservation techniques, for they picked up everything that looked like Tiffany, from column capitals to mosaic tesserae.
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As a Christian, you can say Sathya Sai Baba's miracle stories are not interesting, let's not pay attention to them, but if you set them within the prescientific religious milieu of the first-century Roman Empire, suddenly miracle stories become especially compelling.
The God Debate
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Today the 1983 pledge seems prescient.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a groundbreaking new book that Publishers Weekly has already called "prescient" -
Intellectual properties
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This combination of physical and mental conditions so amazingly favorable to the spread of the Voltairean ideas was a circumstance independent of the state of the surrounding atmosphere, and was what in the phraseology of prescientific times might well have been called providential.
Voltaire
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He came to the fore with a thundering and prescient prediction of the break-up of Britain, coinciding with the Silver Jubilee.
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Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has presciently issued warnings about overpriced equities and houses, has already suggested that farmland might be the subject of the next bubble.
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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
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The move has proved prescient, with many dairy farms having gone out of business during the past two decades thanks to downward pressure on prices.
Times, Sunday Times
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He argued -- hopefully and presciently -- that South-South trade could change the world for the better.
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A few months later, I recall rereading it and finding it scary and prescient.
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Nelson Hilton and David Erdman's prescient but brief remarks aside, the only contributor to engage reproduction with any intensity was John Grant, who, to his credit, adumbrated something not unlike the William Blake Archive in scale, comprehensiveness, and image-intensiveness.
Introduction
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Much of the interest centers on two prescient suggestions made by the two scientists in their 1977 paper on Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial worm that causes onchocerciasis.
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This reveals a prescient insight into the mindset which fuels Connery's anger.
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He will end up being proved prescient one day.
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The people we call visionaries and geniuses, like Bill Gates, typically weren't any more prescient than some of their rivals.
NYT > Home Page
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At odds of 16-1, and with White displaying splendid form throughout the first five days of action, it began to look like very prescient gambling.
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The static subjects of Wang Qingsong s pithy tales often convey a sinister quiet, as if the footage is being held at pause, like a detectives eye moving presciently through a possible crime scene.
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The poem was composed just a few months before her death and seems eerily prescient.
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And he bravely and presciently took a huge writedown by selling a $30 billion portfolio of CDOs for 22 cents on the dollar.
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This proved to be a prescient warning in the case of his son John.
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The modern mythos in regards to education is ultra prescientific.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Tradition Does Not Justify the Socratic Method
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Look up the word prescient, then reread the last few posts.
Think Progress
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Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has presciently issued warnings about overpriced equities and houses, has already suggested that farmland might be the subject of the next bubble.
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I was prescient and the good sense not to come up with the Sybil/Mina Project, dedicated to my deceased mother and her incomparable borcht, brisket, schav, sour pickle and blintzes recipes, thereby retaining the rights to perpetuity of my nobodyness.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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In any case, moving modern enigmas in the intro of an old "prescientific" healing art might be difficult, but necessary.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Fitzgerald's prediction is as meaningful today as it was prescient in 1924.
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extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations
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He was even, by the way, prescient about the meltdown of the Soviet Union.
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The concierge was more prescient that the reformers, whom Du Camp likened to the sorcerer's apprentice.
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(AT 19) Leaving aside the interesting question of what that analysis might be, and its relevance today, Ballard presciently probes the neuralgic point of his own fiction.
Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology
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A beautiful and talented actress, Dorrie ends up in a psychiatric ward, a narrative which seems extraordinarily prescient.
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Little could he know how prescient his comment would be.
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Perhaps it is because it seems that if one finds natural explanations threatening, then the fact that our individual form is shaped by DNA instructions rather than inexplicably by God's hand, that whirlwinds and lightning can be explained in meteorological terms - in short, all of science should be threatening to a religious viewpoint that seeks to hold on to a prescientific view of the world.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Remember the sage advice of Whodini, who, at the height of the crack era put out the ‘prescient’ hit single: The Freaks Come Out at Night.
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Was it part of an incredibly intricate scheme for wine-world domination, possibly some sort of prescient countermove against the nascent Chinese interest in the rival region of Bordeaux?
In the Domain of the Earth Mother of Burgundy
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We take no pleasure in that, and we had to endure some criticism for making such claims, but the warnings proved prescient.
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Will it prove to be prescient move once more?
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Best of all, Silverman touches all the milestones and wet spots of the titular affliction, medically known as enuresis: parents who get up at night with the bedwetting child, fear of embarrassment on a sleepover, the electric pad in the bed that jolts the child awake with its alarm, the prescient doctor who declares early on that she'll outgrow it (and she does).
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Mystics explain this cryptic passage as an amazingly prescient script not only for the past but for the future as well.
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This was an astonishingly prescient insight into what was actually to occur in the Russian Revolution.
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But as I read on, it became apparent that the novel was so prescient it became unnerving.
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Or perhaps it will be his prescient explorations of apocalyptic mythmaking, a core concern of eco-poetics.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But the motto is also eerily prescient.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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Whether Stephenson's vision of a totally privatized America will turn out to be equally prescient is at least one theme of Jody Freeman and Martha Minow's edited volume, Government by Contract.
David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC?
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An interesting twist on this issue, the letter written by Sen. Rockefeller, rather presciently, as it turns out, written to Vice D.C. and locked away unless and until just such a spot as we now find ourselves in occured.
Think Progress » Bush Caught on Tape: “A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. Nothing Has Changed.”
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Although no-one has ever followed through on its promises, Radio Ethiopia still sounds astonishingly prescient.
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Though many philosophers believe that CTM can provide the best scientific explanations of cognition and behavior, there is disagreement over whether such explanations will vindicate the commonsense psychological explanations of prescientific RTM.
Mental Representation
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That prediction looks even more prescient since the surge in oil prices.
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It's a little bit scary being such a gifted, prescient individual.
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We have done this in the name of science, believing that our approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma.
Stanton Peele: America's Imperialistic Mental Illness Epidemic
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McCarthy's long-term objective is to formalize common sense reasoning, the prescientific reasoning that is used in dealing with everyday problems.
Logic and Artificial Intelligence
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Navtej Dhillon, a former Brookings Institution fellow who led a project to study youth in the Middle East, spoke presciently in 2008 about the challenges facing the region.
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An almost prescient autofocus instantly zeroes in on your quarry, then continuously adjusts to stay locked on to that charging moose until you nail the shot.
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Bultmann had in mind elements of a prescientific worldview in general, but certainly the suggestion that, in order to be a Christian, one must accept young-earth creationism or intelligent design, is not unrelated to this.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Orwell's attacks on pacifism now seem remarkably prescient.
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It was a prescient point: 10 years on we got the Battle of Seattle.
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That anxiety has not proven to be prescient.
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If you've got some last minute prognostications or thoughts on the subject, now is the time to spit them out so you can appear to be astute and prescient later on.
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That proved to be prescient as Busch won and Jeff Gordon finished second — noting postrace on Fox that Busch was "so strong on restarts.
Kentucky Derby show has winners across board
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Yet he also presciently warned against Karl Marx's aspiration for a "dictatorship of the proletariat, " writing in 1868 that "socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
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Perhaps in her way she'd been more prescient than any of us -- me, Marianne or her lover.
THE EXECUTION
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Buckley warned in prescient terms against what would become the Rovite heresy at the Xth Party Congress in 1976.
Matthew Yglesias » Independent Thinking!
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He proved prescient in his argument that efforts to help the Third World by avalanches of aid would only ruin local markets and nourish corruption.
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But there's something compellingly prescient about their lives.
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It makes no mention at all of White's passionate and prescient warnings.
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more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation
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In the process, he has been hailed as a prescient genius and dismissed as a rabid extremist, but almost always recognised as a novelist of great power and originality.
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Are you trying to make out like you're prescientific or something?
Obama and the Progressive: a Diary*
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His fascination with popular culture and the ways it could be appropriated for artistic purposes seem prescient today.
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His ridiculed forecasts for a return to growth this year have proved surprisingly prescient.
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His study of America amply confirmed this prescient intuition and made him the first anthropologist of modern equality.
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This argument seeks to make conservatism, not retrograde but prescient.
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Eve immediately realizes that this cut results from her frustration and fear, and remonstrates with her mother about her ability to distinguish real or presciently envisioned danger from that which exists only in her imagination.
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His last post before the incident is scarily prescient.
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Would that the public's investments in failing banks had proved as prescient.
Times, Sunday Times
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This prescient short story, published in Blackwood's magazine, described how, after the fall of France, the German army would invade and grind Britain under its jackboot for all eternity.
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Read it, then come back and re-read this prescient post from last November.
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Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment.
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Although the hokey use of literary criticism gets tiring really quick, the often prescient comments about friction between contemporary world cultures and its future direction is what makes some interesting reading.
