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.
— Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2022 -
And that's something that 25 years ago this week none of us could have foreseen or even dared to hope for.
— EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024 -
But soldiers on the front line do not foresee any letup.
— Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022 -
No one could have foreseen that the pause would still be in effect three years later.
— Delyanne Barros, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023 -
We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024 -
This might help the fight off the existential threat foreseen for Europe at the hands of the Chinese.
— Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 -
No researchers foresee a return to the worst days of the pandemic.
— Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023 -
Right from his early tests out on the boat in Long Beach with Mann, Beebe could foresee the massive challenges.
— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024 -
But this loss was a tribulation no one could have foreseen.
— Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024 -
Sure enough, as Graves had foreseen, in August of last year the judge sided with the Latino plaintiffs.
— Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024 -
The Yale researchers don’t foresee the use of OrganEx to treat people anytime soon.
— Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022 -
But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021 -
For all the good that some people think the drug-free zones will do, Ruff foresees a negative outcome.
— Emily Davies, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024 -
For now, health experts don't foresee any of the new variants causing a surge akin to that of omicron in early 2022.
— Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022 -
Now for the bad news: Experts don't foresee an improvement next year in the number of available homes for sale.
— Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023 -
Legal experts foresee years of court battles over access to the pills.
— Matthew Perrone, ajc, 25 Jan. 2023 -
This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
— Nick Sargen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022 -
Many — more than four in 10 — foresee an impact on election outcomes if rules are changed.
— Jennifer Pinto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 19 July 2021 -
Many — more than 4 in 10 — foresee an impact on election outcomes if rules are changed.
— CBS News, 11 Aug. 2021 -
And 38 percent of mid-tier auction houses foresee the same.
— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024 -
But through circumstances that none could have foreseen, the movie’s strongest surge of emotion doesn’t belong to him.
— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023 -
Some analysts don’t foresee a lasting rise in the cost of commodities like wheat because there’s enough grain in the world to go around.
— Courtney Bonnell, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023 -
Might someone have foreseen that this could blow up and become the last straw for the job tenure of Posley and probably others?
— Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024 -
The people affected by these technologies in ways the people who built them did not foresee, need to be heard as well.
— TIME, 17 Oct. 2023 -
What could not be foreseen, however, is where the conflict finds itself now.
— Tara Sonenshine, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024 -
The researchers clearly foresee an at-home heart attack detector in the future.
— New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2024 -
But Clark and others in Asheville’s music scene — which has a spunky, up-and-coming reputation — foresee a long recovery ahead.
— Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
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