"foreseek" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + seek.",
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          "ref": "1861, Chauncy Hare Townshend, The three gates: in verse",
          "text": "But still I did forget, When I was with you, all I had foresought To utter; for an ocean of new thought Was by your presence into motion set.",
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          "ref": "1904, Charles Thomas Bateman, John Clifford: Free Church leader and preacher",
          "text": "Tea, served in a picturesque spot, foresought and foreordained by the secretary, follows the examination of the local \"lion\" and breaks the ramble in two.",
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          "ref": "1960, Society for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi, Mankind",
          "text": "The pamphlet is an attempt to analyse and foreseek the prospects of the foreign policies of certain Afro-Asian countries.",
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          "ref": "1986, Giacomo Balla, Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Works by Giacomo Balla",
          "text": "And this striving for objectivity which spurs his interest for scientific phenomena, e.g. x-rays which he mentions in his notebook, urges him (one is tempted to say: forces him) to foreseek appearance for the substance of truthfulness.",
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          "ref": "2009, Abhira Fashaukahn, Robbery of the Word That Meant Freed",
          "text": "Yet I (knew) I must lose (her) to prove “her” inhibitions would not be foresought. And so in departing, I had lost my “second” of the best of friends (save Jesus) by a systematic (misconstrued) freedom of “faith,” and left! (NAKED) to the “WORLD”!",
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        "To seek beforehand; seek in advance."
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          "beforehand",
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        "(transitive) To seek beforehand; seek in advance."
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        "(transitive) To seek beforehand; seek in advance."
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