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foreknowing

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noun

foreknowing

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verb

present participle of foreknow
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Verb
  • All of it is encrypted, and some of it could be stored by actors anticipating that current encryption methods may become less effective over time.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Several billionaires have already moved out of the state, anticipating this tax.
    Steve Large, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the wake of Friday’s abysmal jobs report , investors are scrambling to understand whether the loss of 92,000 jobs in February was a blip or a foretelling of more payroll cuts to come as t he adoption of AI by corporations increases .
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The survey is an indicator of companies foreseeing good conditions minus those feeling pessimistic.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Still, many business heads are upbeat, foreseeing a sense of continuity and a measure of economic reassurance and certainty ahead.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Without full accounting, required financial statements, annual audits, budget tracking and forecasting are thrown off and libraries risk spending money that’s supposed to be dedicated to pensions on building maintenance, Franco said.
    A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Subsequent investigations have suggested that the infrastructure and risk forecasting were inadequate for such a devastating natural disaster.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Her company then put out a glossy launch video promoting its product’s wondrous new features, neglecting to mention that the tech didn’t actually work.
    Theo Baker, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The usage of not just music, but visuals, color, emotion, and story brought another reason to explore the wondrous nature of filmmaking.
    Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • With the 2025 college football season on the horizon, months of previewing and predicting soon will be in the rearview mirror.
    Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Her appointment was agreed at an extraordinary meeting Monday of the festival’s executive board, made up of San Sebastián City Council, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Basque Government and the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2026
  • And yet many were created with extraordinary artistic ambition.
    Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Throughout history, dice have been used for many different things, including important decision-making or even divination, such as ancient Roman belief that gods controlled the outcomes of dice.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Soon after, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, published the first book on tarot divination and created a deck explicitly designed for fortune-telling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Foreknowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreknowing. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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