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
The difficulty with you is that you will foresee all your troubles beforehand, and try to bolt them in a lump, instead of swallowing them one by one as they come.
From Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson
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
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
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 β Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
