foreseeable

[ US /fɔɹˈsiəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɔːsˈiːəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being anticipated
    foreseeable costs were well within the budget
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How To Use foreseeable In A Sentence

  • Whoever seeks to export such a system has to be aware of the unforeseeable consequences this model can have in an unknown environment.
  • It does not matter that they are unusual, unexpected, unforeseen and unforeseeable.
  • Unfortunately the glow is so faint that no readily foreseeable telescope will be able to capture it.
  • In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.
  • He goes on to talk about the Pentagon's ongoing, undebated plans not only to keep bleeding our treasury in Iraq (and, I would add, Afghanistan), but also to keep spending billions to design and build Cold War-era weapons "that lack not only a current military need but even a plausible use in any foreseeable future. Robert Koehler: Cross of Irony
  • The international use of English seems assured for the foreseeable future.
  • There doesn't seem to be much likelihood of him taking a regular seat in the audience in the foreseeable future. Times, Sunday Times
  • Suppose there's someone who's current and then loses his job -- his near-term foreseeable income is zero, so how does that apply? New Hampshire Public Radio
  • This was foreseeable because of the spectacular shift to the right; the post-war consensus ended not with a whimper but with a bang.
  • He said it was not reasonably foreseeable that, by placing a leaflet in the door, a dog could jump up and injure itself.
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