How to Use foresee in a Sentence
foresee
verb
- He foresees a day when all war will cease.
- We couldn't have foreseen the consequences of our actions.
- She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.
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At that point, even Smith couldn’t foresee what was to come.
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Hayes Gardner,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Jan. 2022
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But who could foresee that the coronavirus would sweep the world?
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Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2020
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Rogers and Eicher don’t foresee an end date to this work.
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Nushrat Rahman,
Detroit Free Press,
13 Apr. 2021
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Many foresee a net loss of jobs in December for the first time since April.
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Christopher Rugaber and Casey Smith,
Star Tribune,
5 Dec. 2020
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And that's something that 25 years ago this week none of us could have foreseen or even dared to hope for.
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EW.com,
21 Sep. 2024
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But soldiers on the front line do not foresee any letup.
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Carlotta Gall,
New York Times,
12 Nov. 2022
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No one could have foreseen that the pause would still be in effect three years later.
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Delyanne Barros,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2023
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But the Sipekne’katik First Nation chief did not foresee the violence to come.
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Washington Post,
26 Oct. 2020
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We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2024
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This might help the fight off the existential threat foreseen for Europe at the hands of the Chinese.
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Neil Winton,
Forbes,
27 Mar. 2024
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What the fan couldn’t have foreseen was the head coach hearing him and then sharply responding.
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Audrey Snyder,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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No researchers foresee a return to the worst days of the pandemic.
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Apoorva Mandavilli,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2023
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Some of what has befallen them shouldn’t have been hard to foresee.
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Eric Branch,
SFChronicle.com,
14 Oct. 2020
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Right from his early tests out on the boat in Long Beach with Mann, Beebe could foresee the massive challenges.
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Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
13 Aug. 2024
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But this loss was a tribulation no one could have foreseen.
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Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2024
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Sure enough, as Graves had foreseen, in August of last year the judge sided with the Latino plaintiffs.
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Marilyn W. Thompson,
ProPublica,
28 Feb. 2024
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The Yale researchers don’t foresee the use of OrganEx to treat people anytime soon.
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Evan Bush,
NBC News,
3 Aug. 2022
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But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.
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Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
1 Sep. 2021
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For all the good that some people think the drug-free zones will do, Ruff foresees a negative outcome.
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Emily Davies,
Washington Post,
23 Mar. 2024
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Verdugo can hit, and it’s not a stretch to foresee a batting title in his future.
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BostonGlobe.com,
26 Mar. 2021
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For now, health experts don't foresee any of the new variants causing a surge akin to that of omicron in early 2022.
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Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA TODAY,
18 Oct. 2022
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Now for the bad news: Experts don't foresee an improvement next year in the number of available homes for sale.
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Khristopher J. Brooks,
CBS News,
1 Dec. 2023
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What AstraZeneca couldn’t foresee was how bumpy the journey to a successful shot would be.
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Suzi Ring,
Bloomberg.com,
14 Dec. 2020
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Legal experts foresee years of court battles over access to the pills.
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Matthew Perrone,
ajc,
25 Jan. 2023
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Koch doesn't foresee any high dew points or high heat index values.
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Chris Sims,
The Indianapolis Star,
20 Aug. 2020
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This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
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Nick Sargen,
Forbes,
5 Oct. 2022
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But what was meant to be a phone call to a dying child went very differently than anyone could have foreseen — with Carter being just as impressed by the young boy as Mattie was by him.
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Elissa Rosen,
People.com,
30 Dec. 2024
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