See foreanswer on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1812, John Randolph, Enchiridion Theologicum:",
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"ref": "1900, Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country - Page 298:",
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"ref": "1930, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:",
"text": "[...] and whether that buying public can really be increased to the extent hoped for by the dollar-book publishers is a question that cannot easily be foreanswered.",
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"ref": "1962, Clement Cleveland Sawtell, The Ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford:",
"text": "\"Moby Dick\" was in the press as news of the Ann Alexander's disaster travelled round the world, providing testimony well calculated to conspire with the publishers of that now famous book, and to foreanswer and confound the author's critics of whom there were not a few.",
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