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foresees

verb

present tense third-person singular of foresee

as in anticipates

to realize or know about beforehand a freak accident that no one could possibly have foreseen

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Recent Examples of foresees Head coach Mike Vrabel foresees the Patriots making a move to add at the position coming out of minicamp. — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026 Analyst Wamsi Mohan foresees pricing power for the company to remain strong, as memory shortages due to high demand from the AI buildout linger. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 June 2026 Weeks after slashing his staff by 40%, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payments company Block, foresees middle management’s complete extinction. — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026 Under that scenario, Mahdavi foresees gas prices jumping to $5 or $6 a gallon. — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2026 By planting more apple and apricot trees, Lutticken foresees freeze-drying fruit for year-round consumption. — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026 Indeed, Spiber’s plan foresees replacing a large amount of edible sugar with waste by 2026. — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026 The plan foresees Ukraine handing over territory to Russia -- something Kyiv has repeatedly ruled out -- while reducing the size of its army and blocking its coveted path to NATO membership. — Illia Novikov, Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025 As the offseason begins to heat up in earnest, one baseball writer foresees the Phillies replacing Bohm with one of the all-time greats at his position, who is nonetheless a question mark in his own right. — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025

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D’Avignon anticipates there won’t be DNA present in at least some of the cases the task force investigates.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2026
Wall Street anticipates quarterly spending to ramp up to roughly $45 billion, a nearly 26% increase over the previous quarter, as Alphabet has joined its mega-cap competitors in a broader build-up of AI infrastructure over the last year.

— Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of anticipates

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Most companies measure everything except the thing that actually predicts future performance.

— Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
The drivers are aging demographics, a growing short- and long-sighted population, and the smart eyewear boom; Euromonitor predicts a 48% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to 2030 for the latter.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 July 2026

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