Foresee
verb
To know or be aware of something before it happens.
She couldn't foresee the problems that would occur.
Often appears as...
- foresee problems
- foresee complications
verb
To have a mental image of something before it happens.
He couldn't foresee his success.
Often appears as...
- foresee success
- foresee outcome
verb
To predict by using current data or trends.
The economic forecast failed to foresee the crisis.
Often appears as...
- foresee crisis
- foresee financial collapse
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Academic
verb
To know or be aware of something before it happens.
She couldn't foresee the problems that would occur.
Often appears as...
- foresee problems
- foresee complications
verb
To have a mental image of something before it happens.
He couldn't foresee his success.
Often appears as...
- foresee success
- foresee outcome
verb
To predict by using current data or trends.
The economic forecast failed to foresee the crisis.
Often appears as...
- foresee crisis
- foresee financial collapse
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Foresee is often used when discussing planning and expectations for the future.
The committee needs to foresee any potential issues with the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Psychic
Foresee doesn't mean to predict the future with certainty, but to anticipate what might happen.
He tried to foresee what the market might need in five years.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Events
Foresee is often used with problems or obstacles that one expects could occur.
She foresaw the risk of losing data and backed up the files.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Foresee is often used when discussing planning and expectations for the future.
The committee needs to foresee any potential issues with the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Psychic
Foresee doesn't mean to predict the future with certainty, but to anticipate what might happen.
He tried to foresee what the market might need in five years.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Events
Foresee is often used with problems or obstacles that one expects could occur.
She foresaw the risk of losing data and backed up the files.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Foresee is often used when discussing planning and expectations for the future.
The committee needs to foresee any potential issues with the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Psychic
Foresee doesn't mean to predict the future with certainty, but to anticipate what might happen.
He tried to foresee what the market might need in five years.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Events
Foresee is often used with problems or obstacles that one expects could occur.
She foresaw the risk of losing data and backed up the files.
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How we explore...
that it could teach itself to discover a hyperdimensional graviton. But what if? What if the ultimate What if even artificial intelligence can't help us answer our questions? What if these open questions, for centuries, are destined to be unanswered for the foreseeable future? What if the stuff that's bothered me since I was a little kid
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How climate change...
because they can't foresee a future for themselves. And this brings me back to my main point. The growing concern about having kids in the climate crisis is an urgent indicator of how hard-pressed people are feeling. Right now, students around the world are screaming for change in the piercing voice of despair.
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Welcome to the genomic...
a world wide capacity to sequence human genomes is something like fifty to a hundred thousand human genomes this year and we know this based on the machines that are being placed this is expected to double triple or maybe quadruple year-over-year for the foreseeable future in fact there's one lab in
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David Puttnam: What...
in respect of the health of our own societies and the values that necessarily underpin them? Could anyone honestly suggest, on the evidence, that the same media which Hansard so roundly condemned have taken sufficient care to avoid behaving in ways which they could reasonably have foreseen
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the support of your tranquility at home your peace abroad of your safety of your prosperity of that very liberty which you so highly prize but as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken
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Matthew Carter: My life...
printing fonts, of course. But Microsoft foresaw correctly the movement, the stampede towards electronic communication, to reading and writing onscreen with the printed output as being sort of secondary in importance.
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Laura Snyder: The...
So the philosophical breakfast club helped invent the modern scientist. That's the heroic part of their story. There's a flip side as well. They did not foresee at least one consequence of their revolution.
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The warning sounds of a...
to deploy more of these because the more we understand and can capture these soundscapes this underwater soundscape the more that we can use that to help us document and foresee these changes that
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Water Discovered In...
rings and the planet, they were never foreseen in the original mission planning. Actually, getting to do that was really remarkable. Take these kind of dangerous dives between the rings
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Rachel Sussman: The...
that I can help draw attention to their remarkable resilience and help play a part in insuring their continued longevity into the foreseeable future. Thank you.
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How we explore...
that it could teach itself to discover a hyperdimensional graviton. But what if? What if the ultimate What if even artificial intelligence can't help us answer our questions? What if these open questions, for centuries, are destined to be unanswered for the foreseeable future? What if the stuff that's bothered me since I was a little kid
Video examples
How climate change...
because they can't foresee a future for themselves. And this brings me back to my main point. The growing concern about having kids in the climate crisis is an urgent indicator of how hard-pressed people are feeling. Right now, students around the world are screaming for change in the piercing voice of despair.
Video examples
Welcome to the genomic...
a world wide capacity to sequence human genomes is something like fifty to a hundred thousand human genomes this year and we know this based on the machines that are being placed this is expected to double triple or maybe quadruple year-over-year for the foreseeable future in fact there's one lab in
Video examples
David Puttnam: What...
in respect of the health of our own societies and the values that necessarily underpin them? Could anyone honestly suggest, on the evidence, that the same media which Hansard so roundly condemned have taken sufficient care to avoid behaving in ways which they could reasonably have foreseen
Video examples
Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...
the support of your tranquility at home your peace abroad of your safety of your prosperity of that very liberty which you so highly prize but as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken
Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
printing fonts, of course. But Microsoft foresaw correctly the movement, the stampede towards electronic communication, to reading and writing onscreen with the printed output as being sort of secondary in importance.
Video examples
Laura Snyder: The...
So the philosophical breakfast club helped invent the modern scientist. That's the heroic part of their story. There's a flip side as well. They did not foresee at least one consequence of their revolution.
Video examples
The warning sounds of a...
to deploy more of these because the more we understand and can capture these soundscapes this underwater soundscape the more that we can use that to help us document and foresee these changes that
Video examples
Water Discovered In...
rings and the planet, they were never foreseen in the original mission planning. Actually, getting to do that was really remarkable. Take these kind of dangerous dives between the rings
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Rachel Sussman: The...
that I can help draw attention to their remarkable resilience and help play a part in insuring their continued longevity into the foreseeable future. Thank you.
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Jim Murphy
American Author
A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
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John Naisbitt
American Businessman
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
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Gus Kenworthy
British Athlete
It's a life I would have never been able to foresee for myself, but I'm so grateful for it, and I really just loved skiing as a kid, and it's crazy how far it's taken me.
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Francisco Goldman
American Novelist
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.
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Kenneth Cole
American Designer
There are many in the AIDS community who have said we won't find a cure in the foreseeable future. Well, you certainly won't find it if you're not looking.
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Rachel Parris
English Comedian
I know it's TV, but at the same time you don't foresee that so many people all over the world are going to see it, and have an opinion on it.
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Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Statesman
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Sam Wanamaker
American Actor
I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
Austrian Economist
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Jim Murphy
American Author
A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
Quote examples
John Naisbitt
American Businessman
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
Quote examples
Gus Kenworthy
British Athlete
It's a life I would have never been able to foresee for myself, but I'm so grateful for it, and I really just loved skiing as a kid, and it's crazy how far it's taken me.
Quote examples
Francisco Goldman
American Novelist
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.
Quote examples
Kenneth Cole
American Designer
There are many in the AIDS community who have said we won't find a cure in the foreseeable future. Well, you certainly won't find it if you're not looking.
Quote examples
Rachel Parris
English Comedian
I know it's TV, but at the same time you don't foresee that so many people all over the world are going to see it, and have an opinion on it.
Quote examples
Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Statesman
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Sam Wanamaker
American Actor
I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
Austrian Economist
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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