foresight
IPA: fˈɔrsaɪt
noun
- The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
- the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
- (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
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Examples of "foresight" in Sentences
- "That's what I call foresight!" cried the magistrate laughing.
- Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing.
- The only notable place this foresight is applied in the U.S., as I see it, is for our formidable war machine.
- Kotane's clear insight into the problems of our movement developed in him what we call a foresight; almost a premonition.
- The reason it doesn't appear to exhibit "foresight" is because we observe the intermediate candidates from the generator, before they are filtered.
- From what I hear tell, the foresight is a side effect of the genetic selection and enhancement process that was used when my parents decided to have a child.
- In the case of cellular machinery (among other things), we are looking at something and thinking about whether the same kind of "foresight" is required to produce the effect.
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