foresight
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Now, there’s a question of hindsight versus foresight.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
That would require the film to be conceived, shot and edited with even a modicum of foresight.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
Davos may still offer comfort, but Munich offers foresight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
This may yet be a brilliant piece of foresight by the FA to keep one of the best, most single-minded, successful coaches in world football.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
I sat on the bench trying to imagine the year ahead, but I didn't have that kind of foresight.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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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 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 Emerson Bennett
"You can't seem to account for them foresights," continued Mr. Teaby, putting down his tall, thin valise and letting the empty top of it fold over.
From Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett
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 Anne Walker
They are the outgrowth of spiritual reality, as well as of human experience; they repeat the foregleams and foresights of a "far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves."
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke
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