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foreseeable

[ fawr-see-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. as far as can be seen:

    Our objective is to make travel around the city quick, easy, and trouble-free for the foreseeable future.

  2. able to be known or seen in advance:

    A key finding was that the fire was foreseeable, and both the mine owner and the regulatory agencies could have prevented it from occurring.



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Other Words From

  • fore·see·a·bil·i·ty [fawr-see-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
  • un·fore·see·a·ble adjective
  • un·fore·see·a·ble·ness noun
  • un·fore·see·a·bly adverb

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Example Sentences

In all likelihood this last option is what we will get for the foreseeable future.

The reality is that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is likely going to be with us for the foreseeable future.

Chaos and failed states, not democracy, are what the foreseeable future holds for Arabia.

But that was not to be, and Kansas will continue as a Republican bastion for the foreseeable future.

The Italian Navy confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday that it will continue its missions “for the foreseeable future.”

But a man might better lose life itself rather than the only gun he had or could hope to get, at least in the foreseeable future.

Therefore, for the foreseeable future the threat of nuclear war must be addressed even though it will be less likely than before.

We set no limitation whatever as to quantity and with no foreseeable limit as to time.

Moreover, the general possibility of world cultural progress in the foreseeable future has no other conceivable foundation.

A settled, unchangeable, clearly foreseeable order of things does not suit our constitution.

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