foresee
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“If I can foresee this, then I think an engineer who’s designing the product can foresee it too.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Alex: I foresee another trophyless season ahead for Rangers - no cohesion, no fight, no skill, nothing.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ortberg told analysts last week he did not foresee problems with Boeing's supply chain in lifting monthly MAX production to 52 jets.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
If their growth stays above AWS’s, it isn’t hard to foresee them surpassing their larger competitor by the end of the decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
"What did you expect? Capricorn knew where you lived. Anyone could foresee that he’d send his men out when you’d escaped him. He always takes revenge."
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
After repeatedly warning of the rivers’ endangerment, however, Mr. Winder concludes with only the briefest summary of the projects currently aimed at guarding against the dire outcomes he foresees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In its first look into 2027, the International Energy Agency said it foresees the return of an oil glut due to record investments.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
If Fidesz were to win those seats, he foresees a potential victory.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
“Lord Voldemort foresees a moment in the near future when he will not need a spy at Hogwarts?”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
The signers of the Declaration of Independence never foresaw a World Cup, much less an American World Cup team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
Just one foresaw a cut, down from 12.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Has the office served its purpose, or has it lingered one bureaucracy layered on top of a bunch of other bureaucracies, as some critics foresaw?
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
Ironically, Brooks was sometimes mocked as too moderate by his more bloodthirsty constituents because he opposed premature secession, although he foresaw and supported the eventual breakup of the Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
He was not complacent about the challenges, though the obstacles he foresaw were geographical and financial, not technical.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
To a degree that even critics could not have foreseen a year ago, the United States struts and frets on the world stage alone.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
He said he had not foreseen a time when he would be monitoring so many sites and "certainly not having 16 choughlets fledge".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
No one could’ve foreseen the unobtrusively great career that Muncy has carved out for himself, specifically over the past nine seasons in Los Angeles since getting called up in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Addressed to Burnham and the arts minister Lisa Nandy, the petition posted by activist group Good Law Project claimed Arday's death was "the direct, foreseeable and foreseen result of press harassment".
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Then by careful measurements of their respiration, it was found that the fermentation rate was markedly above normal, just as Warburg had foreseen.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
People could be forgiven for not foreseeing the earth-shattering events that were around the bend—the Depression, World War II, the birth of Elvis Presley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
He is shifting Brazil exposure to longer-term bonds, foreseeing a “neutral” interest rate of 10% to 11%, eventually.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with the gift of foreseeing the future in pre-Islamic Arabia.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
The A.M.A., reflecting a now bygone era perhaps more optimistic than our own, was foreseeing a continuing tide of advances in medical science that would carry people along in good health for decade after decade.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
“Send your wife up to the wedding,” exclaimed the Doctor, foreseeing a happy solution.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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