How to Use foresee in a Sentence

foresee

verb
  • He foresees a day when all war will cease.
  • We couldn't have foreseen the consequences of our actions.
  • She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.
  • At that point, even Smith couldn’t foresee what was to come.
    Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Rogers and Eicher don’t foresee an end date to this work.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2021
  • And that's something that 25 years ago this week none of us could have foreseen or even dared to hope for.
    EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
  • But soldiers on the front line do not foresee any letup.
    Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • No one could have foreseen that the pause would still be in effect three years later.
    Delyanne Barros, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • This might help the fight off the existential threat foreseen for Europe at the hands of the Chinese.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • No researchers foresee a return to the worst days of the pandemic.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Right from his early tests out on the boat in Long Beach with Mann, Beebe could foresee the massive challenges.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But this loss was a tribulation no one could have foreseen.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Sure enough, as Graves had foreseen, in August of last year the judge sided with the Latino plaintiffs.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Yale researchers don’t foresee the use of OrganEx to treat people anytime soon.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021
  • For all the good that some people think the drug-free zones will do, Ruff foresees a negative outcome.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Verdugo can hit, and it’s not a stretch to foresee a batting title in his future.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • For now, health experts don't foresee any of the new variants causing a surge akin to that of omicron in early 2022.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Now for the bad news: Experts don't foresee an improvement next year in the number of available homes for sale.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Legal experts foresee years of court battles over access to the pills.
    Matthew Perrone, ajc, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
    Nick Sargen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Many — more than four in 10 — foresee an impact on election outcomes if rules are changed.
    Jennifer Pinto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 19 July 2021
  • Many — more than 4 in 10 — foresee an impact on election outcomes if rules are changed.
    CBS News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • And 38 percent of mid-tier auction houses foresee the same.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But through circumstances that none could have foreseen, the movie’s strongest surge of emotion doesn’t belong to him.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Some analysts don’t foresee a lasting rise in the cost of commodities like wheat because there’s enough grain in the world to go around.
    Courtney Bonnell, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • Might someone have foreseen that this could blow up and become the last straw for the job tenure of Posley and probably others?
    Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024
  • The industry slowed during the summer, and some issues were foreseen, while others were not.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
  • What no-one could have foreseen was how soon F1′s opportunity would present itself.
    Chris Hawes, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024

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