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What is the verb for foresight?

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foresee
  1. To anticipate; to predict.
  2. (obsolete) To provide.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I did not intend or foresee these consequences, and it would be unfair to hold me responsible for them.”
      “How do you foresee further developments in Italian business activity in Bulgaria?”
      “I did not intend or foresee these consequences and it would seem extremely unfair to hold me responsible for them.”
foreseeing
foresees
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foresee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “On her husband's death, a widow usually foresees a life full of harassment and humiliation.”
      “Lopez foresees a day when the headcam will be as much standard equipment as a police radio.”
      “In the eyes, God declares his knowledge, by which he foresees and foreknows all.”
foreseeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foresee
foreseest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of foresee
foresaw
  1. simple past tense of foresee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He foresaw an upsurge in violent incidents years ago, predicting their arrival at the end of this century.”
      “Then one day, a hero rose to challenge the manager in an epic that the prophets foresaw thousands of years ago.”
      “The brochure confidently foresaw that the patient would use this time to set his or her life in order and to prepare quietly for death.”
foreseen
  1. past participle of foresee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If the state's action could have been foreseen, would the archdiocese have spent so much money on a new cathedral?”
      “Yet all of its military uses, from scouting to strategic bombing, had already been foreseen by an eager, if overly sanguine, public.”
      “Who could ever have foreseen that one hundred years later, in the year 2003, this church would be rededicated.”
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