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
Some in the country’s finance circles described him as the field’s version of Zhuge Liang, the third-century strategist whose reputation for uncanny foresight has endured in Chinese lore for centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
They require planning, foresight and smart people, including women and minorities, to win — and even then, only if you’re quite lucky.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
I asked my parents why we couldn’t have a reality show about us, and Dad said, “Because your mother and I didn’t have the foresight to have two sets of triplets. Now eat your spinach.”
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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
It was, perhaps, one of those strange mental foresights, peculiar to certain temperaments, whereby the individual is sometimes warned of impending danger, and feels oppressed by a weight of despondency impossible to shake off.
From Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett
He dressed and breakfasted with all the petty foresights that can mean the shaving of clearance in a tight squeeze, and got off with all the margin of time he could muster.
From A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker
I might take him, and a level along, and go over the foresights and backsights myself.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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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