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Six example sentences with prescient, each labelled with its topic.
A 1968 memo describing pocket telephones and shared calendars now reads as unnervingly prescient about how people actually work.
Technology
Her 2005 note warning about bundled mortgages looked eccentric at the time and prescient only three years later.
Finance
Orwell's 1949 novel imagined screens watching every room, prescient by half a century about the cameras now on each corner.
Literature
The coach's substitution looked prescient when the reserve, in for ninety seconds, hit the shot that won the series.
Basketball
Mendeleev left gaps in his table for elements nobody had found, a prescient move confirmed when gallium appeared six years later.
Science
Her decision to build for phones in 2007, when every rival was building for desktops, now looks prescient rather than reckless.
Startups
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