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Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.

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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.

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Who gave him an imperfect nature—a nature of which it was foreknown it would fall!

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Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.

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His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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