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foreseeable
(redirected from foreseeably)

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foreseeable adjective anticipatable, anticipated, contemplated, counted upon, expected, foreknowable, foreseen, foretellable, known in advance, looked for, perceived, planned, praesciens, predictable, probable, reasonably anticipated, to be expected, vaticinal
Associated concepts: duty to anticipate, forseeability in connidering proximate cause, forseeable dangers, forseeable injury, forseeable risk, last clear chance
Foreign phrases: Nemo tenetur divinare.No man is bound to foretell, or to have foreknowledge of, a future event. Rerum progressus ostendunt multa, quae in initio praeeaveri seu praevide ri non possunt. In the course of events, many problems arise which at the beginning could not be guarded against or foreseen.
See also: forthcoming, future, probable


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A would-be reader, having sufficient patience and curiosity, is well advised to undertake a novel of this quality, certainly--but to do so with enough time foreseeably in hand to keep the story line freshly in mind; for the work is complicated enough without extraneous distractions breaking in upon one.
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