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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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What the Yankees didn’t foresee was that Schlittler would ultimately gain 8 miles per hour on his average fastball, a remarkable jump from just a couple of years prior.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

“If I can foresee this, then I think an engineer who’s designing the product can foresee it too.”

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

"We do not foresee a restart within the next 10 days," plant director Romeo Urjan told the AFP news agency.

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

“But, my dear knight, how could yours truly foresee a calamity of this nature?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

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

And it matters very little what one does or foresees, since if one does not separate or scatter the inhabitants, they will not forget that name or those institutions.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

If there were ever a mathematician whose research practice foresaw these developments, it was Erdős, famous for his large number of collaborators and particularly skilled at coming up with the right problems to solve.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

Ironically, Brooks was sometimes mocked as too moderate by his more bloodthirsty constituents because he opposed premature secession, although he foresaw and supported the eventual breakup of the Union.

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

‘Piper foresaw the two of us going down there, so that’s what needs to happen.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Addressed to Burnham and the arts minister Lisa Nandy, the petition posted by activist group Good Law Project claimed Arday's death was "the direct, foreseeable and foreseen result of press harassment".

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

Would you have foreseen that, after you got back together, you and Rich would release two albums in less than two years?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

However, Shuttleworth suggested Swatch could not have foreseen violence breaking out.

From BBC May 18, 2026

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

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

But that Qiu was in town at all suggests an intelligence failure for Beijing in not foreseeing the U.S. strike.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 5, 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

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

In his article, Mr Wallace says he thinks Mr Netanyahu feels "shame" for not foreseeing the deadly attacks - especially as "someone who presented himself as a security hawk and tough guy".

From BBC Dec. 18, 2023

He knew now why the Archmage had feared to send him forth, and what had darkened and clouded even the mage’s foreseeing of his future.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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