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foreknowledge

[fawr-nol-ij, fohr-, fawr-nol-ij, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌnɒl ɪdʒ, ˈfoʊr-, fɔrˈnɒl ɪdʒ, foʊr- /


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Prosecutors said this was not an idle remark but clear evidence of foreknowledge.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Expert futurists, Mr. Foster shows, disagree over how much the future lends itself to human control and foreknowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 30, 2025

The result was a uLIPSTIC, a universal platform not bound by foreknowledge of molecules, ligands, or receptors.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2024

This has been telegraphed from the series' start; Pike's foreknowledge of a terrible fate he can't avoid, one that will leave him lingering between life and death, informs his overall joie de vivre.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2023

The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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