How to Use foresee in a Sentence

foresee

verb
Definition of foreseenext
Synonyms for foreseenext
  • We couldn't have foreseen the consequences of our actions.
  • She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 plan foresees similar requests for the ensuing years until the full debt of $619 million is paid off.
    — Angela Charlton and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • The difference — known as the breakeven rate — tells you how much inflation investors foresee.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Still, some did not foresee much meaningful change in patients’ lives.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
  • But most experts foresee job gains continuing to slow over the course of the year amid steady economic growth.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The failure of Silicon Valley Bank should have been foreseen.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But who could foresee that Belichick would fizzle post-Brady, going 29-39 with no playoff wins in the four seasons since?
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Does anyone else foresee a new music collab on the horizon?
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Models foresee solar panels and wind turbines playing a large role in the carbon-free power grid of the future.
    — Harry Stevens, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Somehow, Amazon didn’t foresee the craze surrounding the concert and is now working toward releasing the concert’s livestream in its entirety on their platform.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 18 July 2024

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