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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
The diversion of chess is a masterclass in technique, prescience and adaptability—qualities that are essential for victory in business.
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Boris Kreiman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
What Houellebecq does get credit for is prescience.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Unusual prescience on her part or an authorial intrusion from the vantage of our less orderly world?
—Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
With panache but also prescience, the German political theorist Karl Marx wrote not its death notice but its birth announcement.
—Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2021
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Fortunately, Congress had the foresight to understand both the importance of the service and the potential dangers of executive meddling, and so in 1970 walled it off from overt presidential meddling.—
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A little while later, Warren listed six other attributes on his radar: discipline, accountability, work ethic, vision, foresight, leadership skills.—
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Everything is either a complete accident or divine providence, the movie suggests.—
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The attorney general did not respond to the Statesman's questions about the providence and nature of the evidence.—
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One Oiler almost went with the two superstars but wanted Mattias Ekholm’s poise and vision.—
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Running a $10 billion district with more than 44,000 employees and 320,000 students demands a firm grasp of budgeting, a clear long-term vision and relentless focus on student outcomes.—
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Spider divination In Cameroon, Mambila spider divination (nggam du)) poses difficult questions to spiders or land crabs that live in holes in the ground.—
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Following her magnificent turn as a Sicilian divination witch in Agatha All Along, Patti LuPone is returning to the small screen for another flashy role.—
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His collaborators quickly saw which way the wind was blowing: policy debates disappeared, and the government pursued a radical agenda with little forethought and no real scrutiny.—
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The film is pretty funny, in part because Grand Theft Auto is set up for killing, and random people — or whatever the players decided to costume their avatars as — can wander through and shoot someone without malice or forethought.—
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“Prescience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescience. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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