foreseen

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What Lily couldn’t have foreseen, of course, was that her amateur detective skills would become necessary when, one day, George is found dead, and the investigation by a bumbling local policeman isn’t up to snuff.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

It obviously did not; indeed, it could not have foreseen the widespread adoption of mail voting well over a century later.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2026

And its 18,515 new orders, a measure of contract signings, came in below the 18,666 consensus had foreseen.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“You’ve got people coming in and doing things with the ETF wrapper that were probably not foreseen in any way.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Just as she had foreseen, Aureliano Segundo went back to her house as soon as the honeymoon was over.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez