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presciently
adverb
formaluk /ˈpres.i.ənt.li/ us /ˈpreʃ.i.ənt.li/
in a way that suggests correctly what will happen in the future:
presciently warnHe chaired a commission that presciently warned of the nation's vulnerability to terrorist attacks.
Boswell's book is now accepted as a masterpiece of biography, presciently modern in its style.
More than a century ago, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote presciently about the California wine industry, then in its infancy.
Presciently, he signed the unknown band after seeing them perform in a tiny club.
At the end of the war he argued presciently against the imposition of harsh conditions on Germany.
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