foresee
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“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
They did not foresee a government of the current scope and size.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
Cumulatively, these projections foresee nearly 23 million units added across two decades, when demand only called for roughly 19.4 million.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Jenner was astute at that sort of thing; he could foresee problems.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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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
If Fidesz were to win those seats, he foresees a potential victory.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
The project foresees the building of up to 6,000 new sites, with construction expected to take place in phased deployment over multiple years, Swisscom said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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
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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
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
Lincoln even foresaw a kind of “patriotic fusion” to reconstruct the South once the fighting ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Otherwise, he noticed nothing unusual and foresaw no difficulty in improving the kiln’s operation.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
However, Shuttleworth suggested Swatch could not have foreseen violence breaking out.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Yet in 1980 could Carter’s administration have foreseen the catastrophic consequences of its decision not to attack Iran?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
At the age of six, Clara had foreseen that the horse was going to throw Luis, but he refused to listen and had had a dislocated hip ever since.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
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
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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