foresee
verb (used with object)
to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
foresaw
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past tense formof foresee.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said no-one foresaw the influx of 72,000 migrants in the exclave of Ceuta, as pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The signers of the Declaration of Independence never foresaw a World Cup, much less an American World Cup team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
If there were ever a mathematician whose research practice foresaw these developments, it was Erdős, famous for his large number of collaborators and particularly skilled at coming up with the right problems to solve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
He was not complacent about the challenges, though the obstacles he foresaw were geographical and financial, not technical.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
