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foreknowledge

[fawr-nol-ij, fohr-, fawr-nol-ij, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌnɒl ɪdʒ, ˈfoʊr-, fɔrˈnɒl ɪdʒ, foʊr- /


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Prosecutors said this was not an idle remark but clear evidence of foreknowledge.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Expert futurists, Mr. Foster shows, disagree over how much the future lends itself to human control and foreknowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Columbus used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to force the Arawak residents of present-day Jamaica to heel in fear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

The result was a uLIPSTIC, a universal platform not bound by foreknowledge of molecules, ligands, or receptors.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.

From "1984" by George Orwell


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