foresee
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McVay has said in the last few weeks that he did not foresee the Rams being active before Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Of course there are challenges up ahead that I can't foresee that come with age. But along this journey there have been so many pre-conceived ideas like that your reaction time drops off," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some large tech companies foresee a steady stream of cuts for years to come, while others say it’s still unclear how artificial intelligence will affect head counts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
But they said they do foresee it boosting productivity growth, which “can help offset fiscal concerns.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Like foresee, it has an e in the first syllable.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
He also foresees her consolidating some departments, such as the Street Services repaving division under the city’s transportation department, and directing city departments to implement Measure HLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
However, the forecast still foresees a year-on-year decline in profit of 7.2 percent.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 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
It foresees an operating margin of 13.6% to 13.8% for the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
Son also plunged into new areas, particularly data centers, as SoftBank foresaw building massive server farms that would be used by OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 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
‘Piper foresaw the two of us going down there, so that’s what needs to happen.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
It had previously foreseen an increase of at least 15 percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Hoovering up gobs of information, analyzing data without external constraints, and addressing complex problems on a purely pragmatic, results-oriented basis allow AI to offer insights and strategies that its human creators haven’t foreseen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“The report card is pretty unimpressive. We all could have foreseen that this wasn’t going to go great.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
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
By making careful preparations, by foreseeing possibilities, Doc hoped to make this party as non-lethal as possible without making it dull.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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