foresee
verb (used with object)
to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
will foresee
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future tenseof foresee.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Even before the 'plane responds to some sudden gust of wind, or drops into a hole in the air, the trained aviator will foresee precisely what is about to happen.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
You, who are a minister, will see all this in still another light, will fear our defeat, and will foresee the train of consequences.-Why,
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
She, who will foresee Napoleon, was rudely shocked by the fall of the Bastille.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
A man of cultivated parts will foresee the possibility of the retort courteous, where an ignorant man will enjoy the fearless bliss of ignorance.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Maria Edgeworth
The contralto will not care to catechise the bass; the tenor will foresee no embarrassing dearth of remark in evenings spent with the lovely soprano.
From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
