foreknowledge

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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

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

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

This has been telegraphed from the series' start; Pike's foreknowledge of a terrible fate he can't avoid, one that will leave him lingering between life and death, informs his overall joie de vivre.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023

Was there some premonition, she would wonder, that made that moment so poignant, some foreknowledge that this was the last afternoon the three would ever spend together in the small cottage?

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare