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[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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The software can analyze airline schedules and factors such as weather, airport runway capacity and operational constraints to predict air-traffic flows and foresee potential conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He failed to foresee the return to form of small-cap stocks in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

“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

I remembered the words of the young girl Oracle in my dream: I foresee the future.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

It foresees an operating margin of 13.6% to 13.8% for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Rindos foresees eXp’s revenue rising by 3% in 2026, and expects $68 million in adjusted Ebitda, an increase of over 100%, “highlighting the operating leverage in this business as the number of transactions increase.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

The project foresees the building of up to 6,000 new sites, with construction expected to take place in phased deployment over multiple years, Swisscom said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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

Ireland said its new draft -- which used 2025 prices -- foresaw an overall cut on the earlier proposal of 141 billion euros, or 8 percent overall.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said no-one foresaw the influx of 72,000 migrants in the exclave of Ceuta, as pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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

He foresaw a new day for the race.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Hoovering up gobs of information, analyzing data without external constraints, and addressing complex problems on a purely pragmatic, results-oriented basis allow AI to offer insights and strategies that its human creators haven’t foreseen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

“The report card is pretty unimpressive. We all could have foreseen that this wasn’t going to go great.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

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

“Kronos is going to attack New York. You must suspect that. My mother must have foreseen it.”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

But that Qiu was in town at all suggests an intelligence failure for Beijing in not foreseeing the U.S. strike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

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

New inflation figures are to be published Friday, with analysts at Deutsche Bank foreseeing another decline in overall inflation to 5.8%.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

She planned everything coldly, foreseeing difficulties and preparing for them.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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