Extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Look up the word prescient, then reread the last few posts. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC?] Reference
In a groundbreaking new book that Publishers Weekly has already called "prescient". From Wordnik.com. [intellectual properties] Reference
I can recall a prescient political cartoon about candidate Reagan from Pat Oliphant circa campaign 1976. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
(Recall his prescient volume "Condi vs. Hillary," published before the 2008 Presidential election campaign.). From Wordnik.com. [Knowing Know-It-Alls] Reference
Ms. Willingham, 30, could not help but recall a prescient conversation she and her younger brother had recently. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Joniec also recalled a prescient line he had penned in a letter to his girlfriend, Anne Sysol, just months before: "We expect to be in action soon, that being with Japan.". From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
Obama's 2002 speech against the Iraq War wasn't "prescient;" it was just common sense. From Wordnik.com. [A Quick Note On Edwards' Judgment] Reference
Maybe we had gotten too close, because it seemed like he could read my mind, in some kind of prescient pig way. From Wordnik.com. [Quoth the Pig "Nevermore" by Edgar Allan Wayne: Pig Over Australia and Economic Blues--Part 1] Reference
But since September 11, people -- people have been applying the adjective "prescient" to "The Clash of Civilizations" book. From Wordnik.com. [Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity] Reference
King's prognistication proved "prescient," but by luck, or at least by virtue of the kind of rare conjunction of events and people that are not indices of the normal flow of social forces. From Wordnik.com. [MLK's "Black President" Prediction-- A Very Lucky Shot] Reference
How prescient is that?. From Wordnik.com. [BarCampEarth starts tomorrow! | FactoryCity] Reference
That would require some kind of prescient knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Jill Stanek's Pro-Life & Abortion News and Information] Reference
Recall his prescient volume Condi vs. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Sigman: Knowing Know-It-Alls] Reference
This is the strange, prescient art of Marcel Dzama. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange, Prescient Art Of Marcel Dzama] Reference
If his track record is any guide, the hyperbole may prove prescient. From Wordnik.com. [Is This Any Way To Run An Airline?] Reference
You can pull that out of archives and say look at how prescient he was. From Wordnik.com. ['A Big Blow To The Program'] Reference
As an early foe of war in Iraq, he made acerbic comments that now look prescient. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
A very prescient professor said to me, "You know, you really want to be a filmmaker.". From Wordnik.com. [Starting With a Good Story] Reference
"He was not the most prescient," said a White House official, "just the most expensive.". From Wordnik.com. ['The War Room' Stars Fade Out] Reference
And some of the economists whose work was most prescient, and most ignored, remain marginalized. From Wordnik.com. [Converting the Preachers] Reference
That would suggest our forebears were either prescient Darwinians or quick-thinking philanderers. From Wordnik.com. [Isn't It Romantic?] Reference
You draw a very prescient parallel between what happened in East Germany and what's happening in Iraq right now. From Wordnik.com. [Shattering The Paradigm] Reference
Armstrong's argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Out, Out, Damned Atheists] Reference
Her expertise in children's programming went right to the heart of Disney's franchise, and her timing was prescient. From Wordnik.com. [Sending An Sos At Abc] Reference
Five years later his central task is to ensure that Japan's Lost Decade doesn't make his dinner-table musings look eerily prescient. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Decade] Reference
Next year Shiller will reissue "Irrational Exuberance," his prescient 2000 warning against the stock bubble, with a new chapter on global property markets. From Wordnik.com. [BURSTING BUBBLES] Reference
In one sense, this is a prescient look forward to the day when people will store their all-digital assets remotely, "in the cloud" as this concept is called. From Wordnik.com. [The Skinny on the MacBook Air] Reference
Still, producer Graham Chedd livens things up with sprightly animation as well as clips from sci-fi classics (the most eerily prescient: 1966's "Fantastic Voyage"). From Wordnik.com. [Trying On Some Brand Now Genes] Reference
His remark has proved amazingly prescient: in 2002, the top two attractions among foreign tourists to London were the Tate Modern and the refurbished British Museum. From Wordnik.com. [THE MUSEUM WARS] Reference
But as Jerry Adler reports, that warning now looks prescient as the first recorded U.S. case has forced us to confront the alarming gaps in our meat and food safety systems. From Wordnik.com. [THE EDITOR'S DESK] Reference
If owner Tom Hicks and his front-office team couldn't foresee the disaster ahead -- three successive last-place finishes -- there's no reason the kid should have been prescient. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: A Cautionary Tale] Reference
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