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 shoot had originally been scheduled for October 2024, because Aris’ wife was due to give birth over the summer, but lead producer George Schoucair at Abbout Productions had the foresight to move the production date forward.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Companies that redesign their operating models capture outsized gains, resetting expectations for cycle times, agility, foresight, and resilience in their industries.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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Sometimes Maron’s specials have been the result of pure prescience, like End Times Fun, a record of sweeping global paranoia that happened to be released March 10, 2020.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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Indeed, Absolutely was a project of divination, of spiritual conjuring.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug. 2025
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Recently, the method of divination has had another resurgence in modern day.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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“Foreknowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreknowledge. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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