foresaw
- past tense form of foresee.
Example Sentences
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Has the office served its purpose, or has it lingered one bureaucracy layered on top of a bunch of other bureaucracies, as some critics foresaw?
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
But it is unlikely, as it strategised ahead of commencing the attacks on Iran, that the US fully foresaw some of these economic consequences.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Lincoln even foresaw a kind of “patriotic fusion” to reconstruct the South once the fighting ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The average analyst estimate calculated by FactSet foresaw a loss of 7 cents per share.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
There were moments when he foresaw the things that would happen to him with such actuality that his heart galloped and his breath stopped.
From "1984" by George Orwell
