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foresee

[fawr-see] / fɔrˈsi /


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"Of course there are challenges up ahead that I can't foresee that come with age. But along this journey there have been so many pre-conceived ideas like that your reaction time drops off," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

One later recalled, “Nothing we newsmen ate that day led us to foresee that soybeans were destined a few years later to become an ingredient in many popular food products, some of them delicious.”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

At Moonshot, Yang fielded calls from worried investors, including one who wanted to know why Yang had failed to foresee DeepSeek’s rise, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

There was no stratagem that he was not equal to, no danger that he could not foresee.

From "1984" by George Orwell

The investment bank foresees existing-home sales next year that are 26% below 2019’s levels.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

That foresees a world of disrupted trade through tariffs and conflicts over chokepoints, more costly onshoring and less immigration, while political systems test the limits of spending to fund their militaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

SpaceX says in its filing that it foresees $28.5 trillion—yes, trillion—in market opportunities, including data centers in space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

If Fidesz were to win those seats, he foresees a potential victory.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 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

Others pointed to lengthy investing track records when launching hedge funds or venture-capital funds; Aschenbrenner’s stature stemmed from a 165-page essay in 2024, “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead,” that foresaw the path of AI’s development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

Mudgett foresaw no difficulty in acquiring the cadavers, although in fact a national shortage of corpses for medical education had by then driven doctors to raid graveyards for the freshly dead.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It had previously foreseen an increase of at least 15 percent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Inui notes that U.S. economic activity continues to hold up better than foreseen, “creating scope for companies operating in the lower-expectation areas of the market to deliver earnings beats.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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

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

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

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

In his article, Mr Wallace says he thinks Mr Netanyahu feels "shame" for not foreseeing the deadly attacks - especially as "someone who presented himself as a security hawk and tough guy".

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 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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