How to Use foresee in a Sentence
foresee
verb- We couldn't have foreseen the consequences of our actions.
- She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.
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But soldiers on the front line do not foresee any letup.
—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.
—Delyanne Barros, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
—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.
—Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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No researchers foresee a return to the worst days of the pandemic.
—Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
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But this loss was a tribulation no one could have foreseen.
—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.
—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.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022
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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
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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.
—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.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
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Legal experts foresee years of court battles over access to the pills.
—Matthew Perrone, ajc, 25 Jan. 2023
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This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
—Nick Sargen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
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And 38 percent of mid-tier auction houses foresee the same.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What could not be foreseen, however, is where the conflict finds itself now.
—Tara Sonenshine, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
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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
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The difference — known as the breakeven rate — tells you how much inflation investors foresee.
—Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
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Still, some did not foresee much meaningful change in patients’ lives.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
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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
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The failure of Silicon Valley Bank should have been foreseen.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
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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
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Does anyone else foresee a new music collab on the horizon?
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2023
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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
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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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