foresight
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Now, there’s a question of hindsight versus foresight.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
That would require the film to be conceived, shot and edited with even a modicum of foresight.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
“Financial markets are reacting to the geopolitical back-and-forth with a sense of foresight, which currently reduces the pressure on central banks to act,” analysts at Raiffeisen Bank said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
“Dain told me that he’d been given a foresight about the child. Is this important or are you just curious?”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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
"How would Black, by turning in some wrong backsights and foresights, expect to delay the building of the road, even if he wanted to do it?"
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
He dressed and breakfasted with all the petty foresights that can mean the shaving of clearance in a tight squeeze, and got off with all the margin of time he could muster.
From A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker
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
"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
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