foresight
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But that would involve interaction with a lot of fluids, the very agent of transmission of Ebola, so Anoko reminds them how ancestors in their culture have foresight.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Now, there’s a question of hindsight versus foresight.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
No one saw that coming when shares were spun out of GE on April 2, 2024, after Larry Culp had the foresight to break up General Electric.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
They require planning, foresight and smart people, including women and minorities, to win — and even then, only if you’re quite lucky.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
Businessmen congratulated themselves on their foresight in keeping out of it.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Most of my work deals with the next 5 years, and it’s more about pretty obvious foresights rather than ‘predictions’.
From Forbes ● Jul. 8, 2014
It lifted again, and lo! his brain was full of memories and foresights.
From The Brethren by Haggard, Henry Rider
It was, perhaps, one of those strange mental foresights, peculiar to certain temperaments, whereby the individual is sometimes warned of impending danger, and feels oppressed by a weight of despondency impossible to shake off.
From Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Bennett, Emerson
I might take him, and a level along, and go over the foresights and backsights myself.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
He dressed and breakfasted with all the petty foresights that can mean the shaving of clearance in a tight squeeze, and got off with all the margin of time he could muster.
From A Matter of Proportion by Walker, Anne
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