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foresight

[fawr-sahyt, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌsaɪt, ˈfoʊr- /


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A higher quality XO cognac requires foresight of at least a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

But that would involve interaction with a lot of fluids, the very agent of transmission of Ebola, so Anoko reminds them how ancestors in their culture have foresight.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Now, there’s a question of hindsight versus foresight.

From Slate ● May 5, 2026

No one saw that coming when shares were spun out of GE on April 2, 2024, after Larry Culp had the foresight to break up General Electric.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

This anxiety was the mother of Bobby’s foresight, it kept him on edge and gave him an advantage.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Most of my work deals with the next 5 years, and it’s more about pretty obvious foresights rather than ‘predictions’.

From Forbes ● Jul. 8, 2014

Also with this new vision come memories and foresights.

From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard

I might take him, and a level along, and go over the foresights and backsights myself.

From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

It lifted again, and lo! his brain was full of memories and foresights.

From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard

They are the outgrowth of spiritual reality, as well as of human experience; they repeat the foregleams and foresights of a "far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves."

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke




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