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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
  • Return on Tangible Common Equity (ROTCE) increased nicely, managing to edge out expectations as the bank closed out the quarter with a higher level of loans and deposits than the Street was anticipating.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The letter came a day before California’s air regulators were set to release draft updates to the Cap-and-Invest program, with stakeholders anticipating additional changes to the initial January updates.
    Chaewon Chung April 13, Sacbee.com, 14 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
  • If historical beat rates hold, that would rise to 19%, the forecasting firm said.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Aily enables real-time forecasting for demand sensing and inventory optimization, allowing brands to respond operationally as signals emerge — capturing opportunities rather than missing them.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Rhea has a wondrous laugh, which cracks the air like a lightning bolt of joy.
    Britt Lower, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The world of metal will be a less wondrous place without Spirit Adrift, which Garrett is retiring after the release of the band’s sixth album, Infinite Illumination.
    Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 14 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
  • That set the stage for an extraordinary showdown that posed serious risks for the global economy and raised the specter that the ceasefire could collapse and the war could resume.
    Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The scale of commitment is extraordinary.
    Winston Ma, semafor.com, 13 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 18 Apr. 2026.

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