foresight
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I worked with researchers who’d had the foresight to maintain archives of 4chan’s main politics channel.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Those who hope to unplug on Friday evening with no foresight will likely find themselves restless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
That would require the film to be conceived, shot and edited with even a modicum of foresight.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 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
He would need the touch of a surgeon, the alertness of an owl, the cunning of three foxes, and the foresight of a grand master in chess.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
Also with this new vision come memories and foresights.
From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard
"How would Black, by turning in some wrong backsights and foresights, expect to delay the building of the road, even if he wanted to do it?"
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
It lifted again, and lo! his brain was full of memories and foresights.
From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard
If this life on the earth, where man feels himself a stranger, be his all, how superfluously he is equipped with foresights and longings that outrun every conceivable limit!
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Vocabulary lists containing foresight
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Power Prefix: fore-
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