foreseeable

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Recent Examples of foreseeable For the foreseeable future, nothing will change. Mariana Garcia, Sacbee.com, 28 Jan. 2026 Perhaps such a turn should’ve been as foreseeable as Paul’s eventual hallucination given where Season 2 ended. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026 For the foreseeable future, rap’s crown now resides in the West, where Kendrick’s focus this year will be presumably on his cousin and pgLang labelmate Baby Keem. Angel Diaz, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2026 But in the foreseeable future, the American business community will not speak with one voice. Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreseeable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreseeable
Adjective
  • The dramatic halt may have been inevitable given how far and how fast metal prices had surged over the last year.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For governments, company leaders, investors, and others, the danger of the present lies not in uncertainty itself, but in the demand for overly simple solutions and the paralysis induced by their inevitable failure.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • There's the long foreseen Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown)-versus-Vecna face-off, coupled with a dramatic Godzilla-sized ensemble fight.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Trump’s actions, those foreseen and those unforeseen, are creating immense opportunities for change.
    Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The consequences are predictable and well documented.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Crime, disease, and addiction were cast as moral failures rather than as the predictable consequences of political decisions.
    Heather Ann Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • That gap between strategy and readiness plays into expected outcomes.
    Jennifer Belissent, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Begin planting seeds indoors six to eight weeks before the last expected frost in your area.
    Kerry Michaels, The Spruce, 21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • There’s little the central bank can do about that because fixed mortgage rates, specifically, don’t directly track the Fed but typically follow the lead of long-term Treasury rates.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Declining enrollment also makes schools more expensive to operate because fixed costs remain even as student enrollment falls, the report said.
    Hope Moses, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Of course, these lines of inquiry are wholly blocked if the agents remain masked and thus functionally invisible, and investigations are controlled and steered to a predetermined conclusion.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Typically, the show features a segment inspired by the classic film where Indy is chased by a barreling boulder down a predetermined track.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025

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“Foreseeable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreseeable. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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