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foresaw

Verb

The word is derived from foresee

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And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. William Wordsworth

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. John Tyler

President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon. Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. Malcolm X

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Arthur Conan Doyle

I foresaw political correctness 43 years ago. Ray Bradbury

Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and those who followed them accurately foresaw this growing split between truth and reality in Western culture, and they endeavored to call Western man back from the delusion that reality can be comprehended in an abstracted, detached way. Rollo May

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