foresee
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Other times it’s getting married or having a kid or trying to foresee retiring one day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Ortberg told analysts last week he did not foresee problems with Boeing's supply chain in lifting monthly MAX production to 52 jets.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
“But with that, I can’t foresee him running out there and throwing 100 pitches his first outing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Social media and AI harm the body politic in ways Tocqueville and Lincoln couldn’t possibly foresee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
But people did not foresee that the number of children would increase, meaning that the extra wheat would have to be shared between more children.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
SpaceX says in its filing that it foresees $28.5 trillion—yes, trillion—in market opportunities, including data centers in space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
If Fidesz were to win those seats, he foresees a potential victory.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Rindos foresees eXp’s revenue rising by 3% in 2026, and expects $68 million in adjusted Ebitda, an increase of over 100%, “highlighting the operating leverage in this business as the number of transactions increase.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
“Mr. Curtain foresees a ‘call to greater duty’ in the near future.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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At the start of the season nobody foresaw much, if any, of this.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
As governor he foresaw the economic advantages of cultivating Japanese auto manufacturers for investment in Tennessee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
Playing at Knott’s has forged meaningful connections to the community in ways Dangerously never foresaw in his early rock ‘n’ roll days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Adams foresaw a very close electoral vote, perhaps even a tie with Jefferson, which would then throw the election into the House of Representatives.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
While some supply-chain-related impact to IBM’s prior expectations were foreseen, “we did not anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization,” Krishna said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
However, Shuttleworth suggested Swatch could not have foreseen violence breaking out.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Yet in 1980 could Carter’s administration have foreseen the catastrophic consequences of its decision not to attack Iran?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
A lot of rabbits said there was nothing in it, but some thought that Fiver might have foreseen men with guns and ferrets.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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But that Qiu was in town at all suggests an intelligence failure for Beijing in not foreseeing the U.S. strike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
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
They all face similar pressures, but some have done better than others at foreseeing the danger and planning for it.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
Regulators’ fascination with foreseeing how the tech giants could harm competition stems largely from their perceived failure to do so in the past.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 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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