foreseen

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However, Shuttleworth suggested Swatch could not have foreseen violence breaking out.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

“There may be, in the future, some slowdown. We cannot predict it. But a change in the scope of the project is not foreseen at the moment.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It obviously did not; indeed, it could not have foreseen the widespread adoption of mail voting well over a century later.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2026

And its 18,515 new orders, a measure of contract signings, came in below the 18,666 consensus had foreseen.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Although he had never thought of it as an omen, Colonel Aureliano Buendía had foreseen the tragic end of his sons in a certain way.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez