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.

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  • adverb with foresight

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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