presciently
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8.6
- adverb
- /ˈprɛʃəntli/
:
previsiblemente
- The consultant presciently predicted the financial crisis, helping clients prepare for potential losses.
- warned presciently
- presciently so
Examples
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In his article for The Kinematograph Yearbook quoted above, Carter presciently cautioned that "the coming of the wide film will be productive of as many problems as the exhibitor was faced with on the advent of the talkies," and the industry ultimately elected to defer these problems.
Academic text (2017) -
Shea Penland presciently outlined, in the February 2005 issue of Natural History, the threat to New Orleans from hurricanes and catastrophic flooding.
Academic text (2007) -
Later, she understood what he had so presciently identified.
Fiction book (1997) -
As Fortune magazine presciently observed in 1969:
Academic text (1999) -
And presciently, that was written three years ago, well before we got the CRU emails...
Blog text (15) -
The same modernism St. Pope Pius X so presciently warned of.
Blog text (31) -
Yet racial anti-Semitism he presciently rejected with disgust.
Academic text (2010) -
"Science fiction has disserved us," wrote Philip Agre presciently.
Academic text (2010) -
In 1938, Ettore Majorana presciently outlined both the opportunities and pitfalls in applying statistical-physics methods to the social sciences.
Academic text (2005) -
Of utmost importance, Niebuhr had more deeply and more presciently analyzed the predicament of blacks in America than any other religious or secular thinker of his day.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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7.4
In a way that tells what will happen
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4.9
In a way that uses data to say what will happen next
In a way that hints at something that will happen later
In a way that seems to see the future
Antonyms
How Prescient
- Literature
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7.4
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8.6
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5.0
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6.9
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7.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Presciently comes from the parts pre- meaning 'before' and sci meaning 'to know', the same root you see in science. So, to act presciently is to 'know before' — to warn others or make choices with a clear idea of what will happen.