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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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Do you foresee a world in which live F1 coverage ever returns to free-to-air telly in the UK or is it now stuck behind a paywall for eternity?

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Some failures will be genuinely hard to foresee, and a standard that treats all harm as blameworthy will simply be ineffective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

One later recalled, “Nothing we newsmen ate that day led us to foresee that soybeans were destined a few years later to become an ingredient in many popular food products, some of them delicious.”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

He failed to foresee the return to form of small-cap stocks in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

In the spring of 1959, when discussions of my fertilization got under way, my mother couldn’t foresee that women would soon be burning their brassieres by the thousand.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The investment bank foresees existing-home sales next year that are 26% below 2019’s levels.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

In electricity, it foresees 20% growth in generation per year, and that by the end of 2030 the segment’s production will make up around one-fifth of its energy mix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

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

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

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said no-one foresaw the influx of 72,000 migrants in the exclave of Ceuta, as pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

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

Inui notes that U.S. economic activity continues to hold up better than foreseen, “creating scope for companies operating in the lower-expectation areas of the market to deliver earnings beats.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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

To a degree that even critics could not have foreseen a year ago, the United States struts and frets on the world stage alone.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Addressed to Burnham and the arts minister Lisa Nandy, the petition posted by activist group Good Law Project claimed Arday's death was "the direct, foreseeable and foreseen result of press harassment".

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 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

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 older she’s gotten, however, the more trouble she has had foreseeing ever getting married at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

Thus, when Mr. Sharpe announced his visit to the garret where I played, I was deeply troubled, foreseeing that even this species of expression might be withdrawn.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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