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foresight

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


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The job of humanity is to keep stepping forward with all the care and foresight it can muster in the name of civilization, which at last report is known to exist on one planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The statement said Nuñez should be transparent over what Macron called "intelligence and foresight failings".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I worked with researchers who’d had the foresight to maintain archives of 4chan’s main politics channel.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

That would require the film to be conceived, shot and edited with even a modicum of foresight.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

In this, as in many other scientific debates when foresight would eventually trump nearsightedness, Lawrence was right.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

"You can't seem to account for them foresights," continued Mr. Teaby, putting down his tall, thin valise and letting the empty top of it fold over.

From Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett

It was, perhaps, one of those strange mental foresights, peculiar to certain temperaments, whereby the individual is sometimes warned of impending danger, and feels oppressed by a weight of despondency impossible to shake off.

From Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett

If this life on the earth, where man feels himself a stranger, be his all, how superfluously he is equipped with foresights and longings that outrun every conceivable limit!

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

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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