foreknow

Example Sentences

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Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.

From Seattle Times

Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.

From Literature

Who gave him an imperfect nature—a nature of which it was foreknown it would fall!

From Project Gutenberg

Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.

From Project Gutenberg

His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.

From Project Gutenberg