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foreknowledge

noun

Definition of foreknowledge

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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Recent Examples of foreknowledge However, there are common mistakes that can easily be avoided with a little foreknowledge. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 July 2026 But if a 12-year-old Spider-Man fan in Dubuque, Iowa, got to watch the film without any foreknowledge, then the gambit was more than worth it. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026 That is one future no amount of foreknowledge or planning can avoid. — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 The younger daughter had arrived with foreknowledge of the role her older sister had already claimed. — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 Days later, Carlson began releasing The 9/11 Files, a five-part video series that suggests Israel had foreknowledge of the al-Qaeda attacks but withheld the information from the United States. — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026 But even with that foreknowledge, the moment hits us like a truck full of dynamite, aided immensely by Thurman’s explosive shock at the sight of her daughter. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 The chat reportedly included discussions that could indicate ideological motivations, and possibly even encouragement or foreknowledge of the attack. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025 What was the level of foreknowledge about this attack? — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

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During Katrina, Richard had the foresight to get cash before access to normal payment systems became a problem.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
So no, the Giants never possessed the foresight to orchestrate a long-term waiting game.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026

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All this is figured out, with amusing if anticlimactic prescience, by Audrey, who’s blessed with a Carl Sagan-loving scientific mind.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Helaena is Dragon’s Cassandra; her supernatural prescience and big-picture perspective make her perhaps the wisest character this side of Game of Thrones’ Bran the Broken.

— Judy Berman, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

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Other common practices among Druids include the celebration of seasonal festivals, meditation, and divination.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
The competition series featured masters of shamanism, tarot, face and foot reading, saju and other divination disciplines competing in challenges that tested their abilities, using tools including fans, bells, dowsing rods and modern-day laptops.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 July 2026

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