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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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Ortberg told analysts last week he did not foresee problems with Boeing's supply chain in lifting monthly MAX production to 52 jets.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

If their growth stays above AWS’s, it isn’t hard to foresee them surpassing their larger competitor by the end of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

“But with that, I can’t foresee him running out there and throwing 100 pitches his first outing.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

This is going to be painful in ways that you can’t foresee, but if you remain adaptable and empathetic, you could be embarking on an illuminating chapter of your life.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

Why, unable to foresee the result, did they nevertheless make that choice?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In its first look into 2027, the International Energy Agency said it foresees the return of an oil glut due to record investments.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

Shares rose in early European trade as the liquor group foresees a return to sustainable organic sales growth in the year ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

If Fidesz were to win those seats, he foresees a potential victory.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

Arm Holdings foresees significant demand for its chips as swarms of intelligent agents require ever-more processing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

“Mr. Curtain foresees a ‘call to greater duty’ in the near future.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Just one foresaw a cut, down from 12.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

Has the office served its purpose, or has it lingered one bureaucracy layered on top of a bunch of other bureaucracies, as some critics foresaw?

From Slate Jun. 15, 2026

But it is unlikely, as it strategised ahead of commencing the attacks on Iran, that the US fully foresaw some of these economic consequences.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2026

The average analyst estimate calculated by FactSet foresaw a loss of 7 cents per share.

From MarketWatch Nov. 6, 2025

Her heart was so heavy when she bade him farewell it was as if she foresaw what was to come.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

While some supply-chain-related impact to IBM’s prior expectations were foreseen, “we did not anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization,” Krishna said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Our founders scarcely could have foreseen the world we inhabit today: the industries we have built, the technologies we have invented, the prosperity we have created and the power we have attained.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

"I am sure that you could and should have reasonably foreseen the risk," said Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

“I had not foreseen this,” Gwydion murmured, when Taran had finished.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

People could be forgiven for not foreseeing the earth-shattering events that were around the bend—the Depression, World War II, the birth of Elvis Presley.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 30, 2025

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

New inflation figures are to be published Friday, with analysts at Deutsche Bank foreseeing another decline in overall inflation to 5.8%.

From Seattle Times Jun. 27, 2023

At this those faces, cloaked in desolation upon the waste sea beach, were bared; their eyes turned toward me and the mighty lighting, foreseeing pleasure, one by one.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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