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adjective

Definition of foreknowingnext
as in predicting

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foreknowing

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noun

as in foreseeing

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foreknowing

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verb

present participle of foreknow
as in anticipating
to realize or know about beforehand what couple can possibly foreknow the trials and tribulations that marriage will bring?

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreknowing
  1. anticipating
  2. wondrous
  3. divination
  4. soothsaying
  5. extraordinary
  6. augury
  7. miraculous
Verb
  • Despite this drop, the proportion of Americans anticipating an economic downturn over the next year remained steady.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Elsewhere, Geneva’s luxury market is anticipating a 3 percent price growth.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of anticipating
Adjective
  • Bridging her pioneering work with the modern influences all around us (yes, even in Taylor Swift concerts), this wondrous doc is most thrilling as an archival endeavor of all that Fuller created and inspired.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • At his best, my friend has an incredible talent for bringing people and ideas together and transforming them into something wondrous and valuable.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of wondrous
Noun
  • Advertisement Judging from the torrent of polling divinations, spirited debate and reportage dedicated to the potential ballot choices of our sons, brothers, husbands and uncles, women’s voting trends must be stagnant or just simpler, right?
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • So yellow is yellow was was air and Lilia divination trial, and orange was Alice in the fire trial.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of divination
Noun
  • It’s told in flashback to Simba and Nala’s daughter, Kiara, by the soothsaying mandrill Rafiki, with the meerkat Timon and the warthog Pumbaa goofing on the sidelines.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Does Nashawaty, in his soothsaying capacity, even have the right decade?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Definition of soothsaying
Adjective
  • From a temple in Datong, China, that appears to defy gravity to a hand-hewn stone church in Ethiopia, AD has scoured the globe for the 24 most inspiring, extraordinary houses of worship built into the natural world.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The extraordinary painting has only been seen once before in the United States, writes Times art critic Christopher Knight in a rave review of the masterpiece by one of Europe’s greatest artists.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of extraordinary
Noun
  • These signs seem to confirm Sahm’s augury that the economy remains healthy.
    David Thomas, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The auguries were not favorable for a Pétain acquittal.
    Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
Definition of augury
Adjective
  • Steph Curry’s two miraculous 3s in the final 12.2 seconds pulled the Warriors into a sudden tie.
    Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The day after the closing was announced something miraculous happened.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of miraculous
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