(v. t.) To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To utter predictions.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1967, I indicated that the number of lawsuits involving malformed infants seemed to be increasing, not realizing that the increase was foretelling an epidemic.
(2) But if they do foretell of a golden child who will one day preside over a truly clean Fifa, then I can only think this saviour has yet to be even born.
(3) Changes occurring in both countries foretell a future wherein our health care systems may look very much alike.
(4) For if nothing burnishes authority like foretelling the future, nothing breaks the spell of command like responding to changing facts with denial.
(5) But, in office, Trump has proved to be a great deal friendlier to the titans of Wall Street and their interests than he suggested he would be as a candidate, although a close reading of his speeches foretells some of what is now happening.
(6) Bioclimatogrammes have been worked out for the various regions of the country to foretell the periods during which the microclimatic conditions in them favour the development of the preparasitic forms of gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep in the environment.
(7) And while national eyes are focused on what the byelection, triggered by the sudden death of the longtime MP Don Randall , will bode for the future of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, or foretell for the next general election, voters in the semi-rural electorate are much more parochial.
(8) However, if she declines our invitation, then perhaps her greatest gift is the ability to foretell her own failure.
(9) Its outcome is difficult to foretell, as the usual criteria for malignancy are unreliable in this neoplasm.
(10) Oral ulcerations have been said to foretell a severe systemic disease flare and the proposal that oral ulcers represent a mucosal vasculitis has been suggested to explain this hypothesis.
(11) Hypereosinophilia may foretell a more serious underlying condition such as bile duct carcinoma in some patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
(12) Current experience indicates that negative biopsy after such combined therapy may be 85 per cent reliable in foretelling lesion outcome.
(13) Reward-related activity in area 7a probably results from an integration of the visual and limbic inputs to this region, such that visual information which foretells behaviourally important events is emphasized.
(14) The evidence that the mast cell can participate in each form of immunologic reaction--immediate, immune complex, and delayed- as a primary or secondary effector cell and the diversity of its products foretell an evolving recognition of its role in host defense and tissue injury.
(15) At the same time, foreign firms are becoming more active, foretelling greater competition in the United States for both market share and research resources.
(16) The results of this survey foretell a significant deficit of pathologists in community hospital and private laboratory practice within the next five years.
(17) The case may foretell increasing problems with protozoan infections in AIDS as the epidemic spreads to areas with endemic protozoan diseases.
(18) This loss of one cell-specific marker and gain of another is termed the "antigenic shift" phenomenon and appeared to foretell the emergence of a true second phenotype (the same in each of these cases, which could be termed "dedifferentiated" sarcomas).
(19) However, it is impossible to foretell simply from past menstrual history whether a woman will develop amenorrhea after oral contraceptive therapy.
(20) In conclusion, we look into the crystal ball to foretell the future on a retrospective basis.
Prescient
Definition:
(a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the prescient words of a memo written in 1949 by Sir Henry Tizard, the distinguished military scientist, the trouble with Britain having the atom bomb was that it made the country blind to reality.
(2) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
(3) Most, though, opt for that dreadfully prescient quote, given a few years before he died in a Porsche with a friend, doing 90mph, and after he had shot about half his scenes for the new F&F movie.
(4) Indeed, his 1914 satire on the fashion for eugenic family planning ( The White Hope ) was oddly prescient.
(5) "There may be little point in spending many millions of pounds simply to convert an unpleasant but visible marine poison into another kind of poison that is insidious and entirely unknown in its effects," he presciently wrote.
(6) Artists like Duchamp were so prescient here – the idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience comes to it and adds their own interpretation, and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle.
(7) It ended up being a prescient move: the game got out of reach early as the Lakers scored just four points in the game's first five minutes and were already down 18 points by halftime.
(8) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ukip’s rise in the east of England: a world turned upside down – video He then made this prescient statement: “We have got much to sort out in the party … Policy is part of the answer.
(10) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
(11) The convergence, in such a short space of time, of the controversy surrounding the banning of "kill the boer" and the murder of Terre'Blanche is both tragic and prescient; it encapsulates the death of optimism in South Africa .
(12) In today’s context, at the end of a week in which Hillary Clinton has yet again found herself face-to-face with a sceptical press demanding answers about her use of a private email address while working as America’s top diplomat, her robust words almost two decades ago sound uncannily prescient.
(13) Picking Enotiades for the job – rather than Gaye – proved to be a prescient choice.
(14) Someone should point out, in these days when the constitution is so constantly and pietistically invoked, that political parties are not mentioned in the constitution, and that the prescient founders warned emphatically against them for reasons that should be clear to us now.
(15) Again, back in 2010, it seemed shocking; now, in the midst of a so-called rape culture, it seems horrifyingly prescient.
(16) Calling pensions a "broken market", McClymont presciently predicted that the government would never stand up to this greatest of vested interests.
(17) One slogan, however, was to prove particularly prescient: 'When the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble.'
(18) With the benefit of nearly 250 days of hindsight, Mariano Rajoy’s words a few hours after Spain’s most significant election since its return to democracy appear utterly prescient – if a little on the optimistic side.
(19) The big society revolution, he warned presciently, "would not happen by itself".
(20) Given that the current US president disputes the hard evidence of climate change, I can’t think of a more prescient play for today – one which proves that 30s theatre had depth-charge impact.