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foresees

verb

present tense third-person singular of foresee

as in anticipates

to realize or know about beforehand a freak accident that no one could possibly have foreseen

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Recent Examples of foresees Last month, Semafor reported that Amazon’s sustainability chief foresees a multi-year uptick in the company’s carbon footprint. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Every father hopes for a better life for their children, but no parent foresees their child living in a warzone. — Diaa Ostaz, ABC News, 24 July 2026 Head coach Mike Vrabel foresees the Patriots making a move to add at the position coming out of minicamp. — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026 Analyst Wamsi Mohan foresees pricing power for the company to remain strong, as memory shortages due to high demand from the AI buildout linger. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 June 2026 Weeks after slashing his staff by 40%, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payments company Block, foresees middle management’s complete extinction. — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026 Under that scenario, Mahdavi foresees gas prices jumping to $5 or $6 a gallon. — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2026 By planting more apple and apricot trees, Lutticken foresees freeze-drying fruit for year-round consumption. — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026 Indeed, Spiber’s plan foresees replacing a large amount of edible sugar with waste by 2026. — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026

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Shotwell said SpaceX's existing infrastructure can't support the number or cadence of Starship launches the company anticipates reaching, and tied Starbase Louisiana to SpaceX's long-term goal of using Starship to make human life interplanetary.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
For that reason, NASA anticipates that Roman will image more than 50 times as much of the sky in the next five years as Hubble covered in three decades.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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