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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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One later recalled, “Nothing we newsmen ate that day led us to foresee that soybeans were destined a few years later to become an ingredient in many popular food products, some of them delicious.”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

But they said they do foresee it boosting productivity growth, which “can help offset fiscal concerns.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The mayor would later tell confidantes that he didn’t foresee the blowback, and he would do it differently if he could.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Alex: I foresee another trophyless season ahead for Rangers - no cohesion, no fight, no skill, nothing.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Or are people in her profession able to foresee such calamities and avoid them?”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The investment bank foresees existing-home sales next year that are 26% below 2019’s levels.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

That foresees a world of disrupted trade through tariffs and conflicts over chokepoints, more costly onshoring and less immigration, while political systems test the limits of spending to fund their militaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

After repeatedly warning of the rivers’ endangerment, however, Mr. Winder concludes with only the briefest summary of the projects currently aimed at guarding against the dire outcomes he foresees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Toll Brothers expects deliveries in a range from 2,600 to 2,700 units in its third quarter and foresees an adjusted home sale gross margin of 25.25%.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

“Lord Voldemort foresees a moment in the near future when he will not need a spy at Hogwarts?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Wilson’s democratic faith is the heart of Mr. Wegman’s account: “No other founder foresaw more accurately where America was headed—a country more democratic, more inclusive, and more egalitarian than any of his contemporaries dared imagine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Ireland said its new draft -- which used 2025 prices -- foresaw an overall cut on the earlier proposal of 141 billion euros, or 8 percent overall.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

At the start of the season nobody foresaw much, if any, of this.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The signers of the Declaration of Independence never foresaw a World Cup, much less an American World Cup team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

There were moments when he foresaw the things that would happen to him with such actuality that his heart galloped and his breath stopped.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Inui notes that U.S. economic activity continues to hold up better than foreseen, “creating scope for companies operating in the lower-expectation areas of the market to deliver earnings beats.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

But Sanchez on Wednesday said on X that with the information available "no one could have foreseen the migration crisis that unfolded".

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

He said he had not foreseen a time when he would be monitoring so many sites and "certainly not having 16 choughlets fledge".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

To a degree that even critics could not have foreseen a year ago, the United States struts and frets on the world stage alone.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

As he had foreseen, the track was crumbling like sand under the horse’s hooves.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Second, stocks could be foreseeing a future that many Americans have yet to suss out—one, say, in which the war with Iran ends, inflation eases and growth picks up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

He is shifting Brazil exposure to longer-term bonds, foreseeing a “neutral” interest rate of 10% to 11%, eventually.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with the gift of foreseeing the future in pre-Islamic Arabia.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024

The A.M.A., reflecting a now bygone era perhaps more optimistic than our own, was foreseeing a continuing tide of advances in medical science that would carry people along in good health for decade after decade.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Already my mother would admit to foreseeing herself in her own mother, a woman grown old, bald and bowlegged, after a hard lifetime of working.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez


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