aforeknown

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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 • Nov. 26, 2021

Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The fortunes of cities, as well as of men," said Plutarch, "have their certain periods of time prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the simple question is, Does the event take place because it is foreknown, or is it foreknown because it will take place?

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur