How to Use foregone conclusion in a Sentence

foregone conclusion

noun

• For the first time in a few years, the future of the NBA isn’t a foregone conclusion.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• The movie ends in a way that treats a third film like a foregone conclusion.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• In his mind, the question of whether to have a notch at all is a foregone conclusion.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2018
• The term - life plus 30 years - was a foregone conclusion.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• The term – life plus 30 years – was a foregone conclusion.
  — Claudia Torrens, Twin Cities, 17 July 2019
• That Nikolas Cruz, 22, will spend the rest of his life in prison is all but a foregone conclusion.
  — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Still, city approval of the project is not a foregone conclusion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• The reason, in part, was because Stone and SMU have been a foregone conclusion for such a long time.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2020
• While Petro’s chances are strong, his win isn’t a foregone conclusion.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• Wilder staggered into the ropes at the 1:20 mark of the fifth, by which time the fight’s outcome appeared to be a foregone conclusion.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 22 Feb. 2020
• The success of the summit wasn't a foregone conclusion.
  — Eric Talmadge, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• The outcome was a foregone conclusion, but the drama wasn’t over.
  — J.c. Hallman, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
• But this season, the result of a close game feels like a foregone conclusion.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
• The term -- life plus 30 years -- was largely a foregone conclusion.
  — Fox News, 18 July 2019
• The governor’s thing was sort of a foregone conclusion if Toomey wants it.
  — Marc Levy, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• The governor's thing was sort of a foregone conclusion if Toomey wants it.
  — Marc Levy, Star Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
• But that was a foregone conclusion, as the two men were the only candidates on the ballot.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 6 June 2018
• But that was a foregone conclusions, as the two men were the only candidates on the ballot.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 6 June 2018
• While the outcome of the vote appears to be a foregone conclusion, what his election will mean for the country is far from clear.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 14 June 2021
• As to who would play the other half of the couple, that almost seemed a foregone conclusion to Coen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• That might not normally be the case when the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Reprising his lead role in the Paramount+ series was not a foregone conclusion.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• For some of the challengers for Chicago mayor, the departure of the Bears is a foregone conclusion.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
• War fatigue doesn’t have to be a foregone conclusion, though.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• The result of the vote was not a foregone conclusion, however.
  — Alanna Mitchell, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• As a result, opening gifts in public is now more of a choice than a foregone conclusion.
  — Lindsay Mannering, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• Thus the real genre of these proceedings is the playing out of a foregone conclusion.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2020
• But while the end of this season was a foregone conclusion, did manage to surprise with a cameo that very few of us saw coming.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 23 June 2022
• Initially coined by the essayist Hu Wenhui, this term adopts the metaphor of a basketball game when one side has amassed so many points that the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• When state-level outcomes seem to be a foregone conclusion, the campaigns consider those states out of play, and they are usually ignored.
  — Costas Panagopoulos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024