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In each question below, a word is given followed by four sentences. Identify which of the sentences use the given word correctly in terms of both grammar and context. Word: PRESCIENT 1. The economist’s 2005 paper, which modelled the precise conditions under which a derivatives-driven financial collapse could cascade through global banking systems, was widely cited after 2008 as one of the most prescient analyses produced by the academic profession in the preceding decade. 2. The retired general’s prescient warning about the vulnerability of critical digital infrastructure to state-sponsored cyberattacks — dismissed at the time as alarmist — proved devastatingly accurate within four years of its publication. 3. In prescient of the regulatory changes expected later that year, the pharmaceutical company accelerated the clinical trial phase of its flagship drug to secure market authorisation before the new evidentiary standards came into force. 4. Literary critics have long argued that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was among the most prescient works of twentieth-century fiction, anticipating with uncomfortable accuracy the psychological mechanisms by which mass consumption and mediated pleasure would discipline populations more effectively than overt coercion.
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