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countable and uncountable, plural foresights
The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future. quotations examples
The rugged forhead that with graue foreſight / Welds kingdomes cauſes, & affaires of ſtate; […]
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, stanza 1, page 1
In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: […]
1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2
The specifiers of the Freightliner network had the foresight to base the rail journey on carrying ISO containers which are 8ft wide and originally 8ft tall (although now increased to a height of 9ft 6ins), with a variety of lengths.
2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68
the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon examples
(surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object examples