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foregone

[fawr-gawn, -gon, fawr-gawn, -gon] / fɔrˈgɔn, -ˈgɒn, ˈfɔrˌgɔn, -ˌgɒn /
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In his telling, every meeting packs a punchline, conclusions are never foregone and suspense is rarely more than a page or two away.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

Game 1 illustrated that it’s more like a foregone conclusion.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

“I think endemicity is a foregone conclusion and measles will circulate at the level it did in the 1990s,” Adalja said.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2026

Those triumphs were not exactly foregone conclusions given the travel sickness Howe's team previously suffered with.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis



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