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• COVID-19 hit the company hard—I foresee it will liquidate within a year.From the entry liquidate
• The crisis could not have been foreseen.From the entry foreseen
• No single discipline appears sufficient to cope with the foreseen complexity.2011, Donald F. Mulvihill, Marketing and the Future (page 54). From the entry changingly
• Most of the rational world . . . foresaw a smooth ride to victory for Democrats.2008 April 23, Amy Sullivan, “A Primary with No End”, in TIME, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2014, retrieved 03 Jul 2015. From the entry midterm
• Violent reactions from the Jewish authorities were expected and difficulties of actioning the new guidelines were foreseen.2005, Fritz Liebreich, “The physical confrontation: interception and diversion policies in theory and practice”, in Britain's Navel and…. From the entry action
• A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen.1980, IEEE Computer Society, Computer. From the entry videotex
• But this is not a foreseen design; it is an afterseen design.1971, Harold Fisch, Hamlet and the Word: the covenant pattern in Shakespeare. From the entry afterseen
• There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442. From the entry advertent
• They drew into themselves and no one could foresee how they would come out of the cloud.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, page 105. From the entry beyond the pale
• Miss Frensham evidently did foresee some satisfaction in talking about it, for she came at once.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry promptness
• "I had foreseen it and I had put some cholesterine among the paraffin in the zinc pail."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry cholesterine
• However, classification of the finite simple groups was much harder than could have been foreseen in the 19th century.2010, John Stillwell, Mathematics and Its History, 3rd edition, Springer, page 495. From the entry simple group
• He hadn't foreseen the celebrityship that was accorded him as soon as he entered the lobby from the parking garage.2001, G. William Kesler, Perish by the Sword. From the entry celebrityship
• On the other hand, many U.S. corporations foresaw the coming confirmation and the likely regulations and antiwarming measures.1996, Joseph Francis Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines, 2025, page 119. From the entry antiwarming
• Toffler foresees the equality of workers' capabilities.1979, Yearn H[ong] Choi, Introduction to Public Administration: Essays and Research Notes, Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company…. From the entry adhocrat
• Intrigued by the prospect of an additional commission, the realtor hurriedly assured me he foresaw no problem in obtaining the lease.1975, Jerzy Kosiński, Cockpit, Grove Press, published 1998, page 189. From the entry realtor
• Events were soon to prove false those predictions of catastrophe, predictions of a fate that was forewished rather than foreseen.1955, William White Craik, Bryn Roberts and the National Union of Public Employees. From the entry forewish
• So am I, but I foresee trouble over her designation.[1923 June 1, The Ladies’ Mirror: The Fashionable Ladies’ Journal of New Zealand, volume I, number 12, page 5, columns 2–3. From the entry auctioneeress
• This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.November 10, 1917, Willard Connely, The Independent, Volume 92, "Making Sailors without Ships", Independent Publications, pages 299-300. From the entry sagely
• How these worthies will act, we cannot foresee.1912, Orlo Williams, Lamb's Friend the Census-taker: Life and Letters of John Rickman. From the entry jesuitize
• Scott presumably foresaw this, which may explain his decision to geologize on the return trip once he lost priority at the pole.2011, Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, →ISBN. From the entry geologize
• It could happen as a result of any of the existential risks we already know about—or some other cause which none of us foresaw.2008, Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks”, in Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković, editors…. From the entry existential risk
• Also no-one in our house could foresee that since my father's name was Maurice I would be constantly called, with mounting frustration, 'Mauri-Morry-Maureen!'2000, Maureen Lipman, Lip Reading, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry Maureen
• None of them have real thoughts, none can foresee the future or regret the past, none are self-aware, except the super-primate humans, us.1996, Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry super-primate
• As we saw in the case of Lukács, it is characteristic of this tradition to blur the distinction between foreseeing the future and creating it.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry blur
• Strickland seemed to bear in his heart strange harmonies and unadventured patterns, and I foresaw for him an end of torture and despair.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 26”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry unadventured
• When one, 'mongst many, so truly could divine Could augurize aright, foresee, foresay A full month since, bidding " King James, good day !1909, Stuart tracts, page 65. From the entry augurize
• The domus was a unique and unprecedented concentration of tilled fields, seed and graain stores, people, and domestic animals, all coevolving with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen.2017, James C Scott, chapter 2, in Against the Grain, New Haven and London: Yale University, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry domus
• On the basis of past and present, we can foresee a very bright English in India as link language, a window on the modern world and a library language.2010, Teaching of English. From the entry link language
• Permadi foresees victory for Megawati, framing his prediction in Nostradamus-like cryptobabble: “There will be disruptions and chaos before or after the elections,” he said in a Reuters interview.1999, The Skeptical Inquirer, page 12. From the entry cryptobabble
• Another form of consumption tax that some foresee is a “sin tax”, which would come in the form of higher excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco.1988 Dec. 19, Jan M. Rosen, "Tax Watch: The Likely Forms Of New Taxes," New York Times (retrieved 29 Sep 2012). From the entry luxury tax
• The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.1900, Albert Bushnell Hart with John Gould Curtis, American History Told by Contemporaries, page 851. From the entry klansman
• In the next two decades, however, the demographic, economic and political impact of the new colonists would transform the country in ways that the tangata whenua could never have foreseen.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 179. From the entry tangata whenua
• The wrong in alienation of affections is foreseen damage to the relationship between husband and wife, which requires the marriage not to have been in ruins before the outsider interfered.2002, Eric Rasmusen, “5: An economic approach to adultery law”, in Antony W. Dnes, Bob Rowthorn, editors, The Law and Economics of…. From the entry alienation of affections
• The radiant goddess, wise in womans wisdom, foresaw a future as secure as the oak pillars of redbeards hall, and knew true hearts gladness as the sacred vows were made.1999, Thunder, issue 10, How Sif Got Her Golden Hair (Thorskegga Thorn). From the entry Redbeard

Meaning of foresee

1. verb To perceive (a situation or event) in advance.
2. verb To provide.

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Questions about foresee in a sentence

How do you use foresee in a sentence?

Foresee is used as a verb. For example: “COVID-19 hit the company hard—I foresee it will liquidate within a year.”

What is a short sentence with foresee?

“The crisis could not have been foreseen.”

What does foresee mean?

Foresee means to perceive (a situation or event) in advance.