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foreknowledge

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


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That is one future no amount of foreknowledge or planning can avoid.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 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

But the judge decided that the absence of foreknowledge was no defence, because what they did had the effect of incitement.

From BBC Dec. 20, 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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