foresee
verb (used with object)
to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
were foreseeing
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past progressiveof foresee.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Only a decade ago, many prophets were foreseeing an era of accelerating radicalism; that did not occur.
From Time Magazine Archive
The governors of most of the colonies were directing a treacherous attack against the charters; but bold students of the drift of things were foreseeing a time when charters might be superseded by independence.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
