foreknowledge
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of foreknowledge
Example Sentences
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Expert futurists, Mr. Foster shows, disagree over how much the future lends itself to human control and foreknowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
But the judge decided that the absence of foreknowledge was no defence, because what they did had the effect of incitement.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024
Columbus used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to force the Arawak residents of present-day Jamaica to heel in fear.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
The result was a uLIPSTIC, a universal platform not bound by foreknowledge of molecules, ligands, or receptors.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024
Was there some premonition, she would wonder, that made that moment so poignant, some foreknowledge that this was the last afternoon the three would ever spend together in the small cottage?
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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