prescience

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Businesses may make their own agreements irrespective of the law, but they always act (in his prescient words) in its shadow.
The author's projections have in certain cases proved prescient and in others been negated by rapidly changing circumstances.
I especially enjoyed reading about the prescient, if largely overlooked, contributions of very early investigators in the field.
People may try to anticipate the future, and we can even predict the future in some cases, but no one is literally prescient.
This prescient war-torn oratorio should enter the repertoire as an apt epic of our time.
As had happened with other problems in bioethics (and with genetic engineering most notably), the speculative discussions prior to important scientific breakthroughs were remarkably prescient.
The other adjectives used to modify variation arise in the context of selection in conceptual change, but no one thinks that people, including scientists, are prescient.
Britt's testimony was more prescient than he let on.
Headlam comes across as an acerbic yet perceptive and sometimes prescient commentator.
Combe is left extremely prescient in reacting to an industrial revolution which was barely perceptible, and rationalizing a set of capitalist relations which had not yet emerged.
Jwaideh was prescient in another interpretation.
It is a melancholy thought, but perhaps those local authorities who did not do so were wiser and more prescient than those who did.
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