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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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The software can analyze airline schedules and factors such as weather, airport runway capacity and operational constraints to predict air-traffic flows and foresee potential conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

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

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

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Other times it’s getting married or having a kid or trying to foresee retiring one day.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

There was no stratagem that he was not equal to, no danger that he could not foresee.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth foresees months of declining oil reserves and depleting global stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 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

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

Rather than one replacing the other, it foresees more partnerships between "AI tool firms and IT services firms that can create several new areas of work".

From BBC Mar. 16, 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

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

From BBC Jul. 31, 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

Among the high-profile naysayers is Michael Burry, who foresaw the subprime mortgage crisis and recently compared the frenzy around AI to the dot-com bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

‘They arrived just as you foresaw, Enceladus! Well done!’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

“The report card is pretty unimpressive. We all could have foreseen that this wasn’t going to go great.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 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

Anyway all the flirtations and memoranda came to nothing, as foreseen in these pages and elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 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

“Kronos is going to attack New York. You must suspect that. My mother must have foreseen it.”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

Thus, when Mr. Sharpe announced his visit to the garret where I played, I was deeply troubled, foreseeing that even this species of expression might be withdrawn.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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