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Recent Examples of precognition
Ancient oracles claim to have precognition, an insight into the future.
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Ancient oracles claim to have precognition, an insight into the future.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
But in behavioral science, many scholars point to an article published in a mainstream psychology journal in 2011 claiming evidence of precognition — that is, the ability to sense the future.
—Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
But instead of rearranging itself around Barker’s research into precognition, the paradigm shifted away from him and snapped more firmly into place.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
The show enjoyed a one-two punch (or kick) of precognition.
—Mike Bloom, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
During his time in Aberfan, Barker tactfully but doggedly set about recording examples of precognition that came his way.
—Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
More daringly, Barker thought that proving the existence of precognition would overturn the basic human understanding of linear time.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
Joe Lynch: Those people should be tracked down and forced to reckon with their lack of precognition.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Ancient oracles claim to have precognition, an insight into the future.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
But in behavioral science, many scholars point to an article published in a mainstream psychology journal in 2011 claiming evidence of precognition — that is, the ability to sense the future.
—Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
But instead of rearranging itself around Barker’s research into precognition, the paradigm shifted away from him and snapped more firmly into place.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
The show enjoyed a one-two punch (or kick) of precognition.
—Mike Bloom, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
During his time in Aberfan, Barker tactfully but doggedly set about recording examples of precognition that came his way.
—Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
More daringly, Barker thought that proving the existence of precognition would overturn the basic human understanding of linear time.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
Joe Lynch: Those people should be tracked down and forced to reckon with their lack of precognition.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precognition
Noun
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But in that moment, Queen Genevieve was born, a player whose clairvoyance could summon her enemies’ words from the ether.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2024
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With just about 20 days until the presidential election, voters have turned to polls and prediction markets for some clairvoyance on its outcome.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2024
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As politicians grapple with the aging crisis, chronic disease control and escalating Medicare expenditures, Sen. Rick Scott has the foresight to focus policy on improving a negative health determinant that is at epidemic levels among seniors — loneliness.—
Gail Matillo,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Apr. 2025
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Some of it is good foresight, but that's how any company works.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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With Season 7 now on Netflix — after the questionable prescience and potency of Season 6 — IndieWire is updating our ranking of every installment.—
Steve Greene,
IndieWire,
12 Apr. 2025
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Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex frameworks.—
Boris Kreiman,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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The next year, Schmeisser marched into a large conference room at Army Research Office headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to pitch a research project to investigate synthetic telepathy for soldiers.—
Adam Piore,
Discover Magazine,
1 Mar. 2012
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These detector settings allow Alice and Bob to ask the particles different questions; an additional trick to throw off their apparent telepathy.—
Daniel Garisto,
Scientific American,
6 Oct. 2022
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“Precognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precognition. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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