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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This can only be achieved by developing an inherently agile culture, not just toward delivering software products but with a focus on strategic foresight and business operations.—
Tipu Usha Vaithee Swaran,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025 -
The Rich Auntie Way of Life Balancing joy today with foresight for tomorrow is a hallmark of the Rich Auntie way of life.—
Kara Stevens,
Essence,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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 17 Sep. 2025.
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