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

However, Shuttleworth suggested Swatch could not have foreseen violence breaking out.

From BBC • May 18, 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

“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

That night the officers put seven slips of paper into a cap, and Captain Roque Carnicero's unpeaceful fate was foreseen by his name on the prize slip.

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