foreknow

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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.

From Seattle Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

But after ourselves moving in such an environment it is marvelous to ponder that any creatures prefer it, and good to foreknow that our own world will swim out into a splendid frosty weather.

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