foreseen

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What Lily couldn’t have foreseen, of course, was that her amateur detective skills would become necessary when, one day, George is found dead, and the investigation by a bumbling local policeman isn’t up to snuff.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

If only Freidenberg could have foreseen that, in a distant continent three-quarters of a century later, another literary scholar, like herself, would so ably bring these moving and brilliant notes to light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

He did what he did in Vasquez Perdomo; he should have foreseen the consequences.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2025

And it could not have been foreseen then how much further there was still to fall, with Andrew experiencing the most public loss of status for a royal in modern history.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

“Yes. That is how I witnessed what happened to my people. If only I had foreseen what was to come, I might have been able to prevent it. To save at least some of them...”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia