(formal) knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen:
prescient remarks / warnings
prescience noun [U]:
She showed great prescience in selling her shares just before the market crashed.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, prescient is tagged as adjective.
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