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prescient
/ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/
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What does prescient mean?
adjective
- Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
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/ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/
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It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching regiments in the east.