as in foresight
the special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur
a suspenseful story about a man who has a frightening foreknowledge of disasters
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Noun
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The truth is, aging in place is a wonderful thing, but only when done with structure, foresight and support.—
John Samuels,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Asset protection requires both foresight and compliance.—
Blake Harris,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Despite pundits claiming that Akio Toyoda was out of his mind for declaring that all-electric vehicles were not going to be Toyota’s near-term focus, his prescience on the matter has been proven.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Apr. 2025
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Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generation Station in Pennsylvania experienced the single worst nuclear meltdown on record in U.S. history, giving the film unexpected prescience.—
Keaton Bell,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2025
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Spider divination In Cameroon, Mambila spider divination (nggam du)) poses difficult questions to spiders or land crabs that live in holes in the ground.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Following her magnificent turn as a Sicilian divination witch in Agatha All Along, Patti LuPone is returning to the small screen for another flashy role.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Foreknowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreknowledge. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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