See see coming in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "You're a perfect hitman; you look like a regular guy. Nobody sees you coming.",
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"text": "My pension plan went broke. I didn't see that development coming.",
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"ref": "2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:",
"text": "I should've seen it coming / It should've sent me running / That's what I get for loving you-oo-oo...",
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"ref": "2022 August 24, Kevin Roose, “We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
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"ref": "2022 September 23, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 23, 2022:",
"text": "\"'Effectively accelerates your own healing'... yeah, I should've seen this coming.\" \"So I'm not burnt out?! I can use my magic again?!\" \"Um, I think so, but...\"",
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"To notice in advance, especially to recognise as a threat or problem; to foresee."
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"(informal, of a thing, person, or occurrence) To notice in advance, especially to recognise as a threat or problem; to foresee."
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"word": "nem lepi meg"
},
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"ref": "2022 August 24, Kevin Roose, “We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
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"ref": "2022 September 23, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 23, 2022:",
"text": "\"'Effectively accelerates your own healing'... yeah, I should've seen this coming.\" \"So I'm not burnt out?! I can use my magic again?!\" \"Um, I think so, but...\"",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
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"calque",
"neologism"
],
"word": "lát jönni"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
"word": "számít rá"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
"word": "előre lát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
"word": "nem lepi meg"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
"word": "nem éri váratlanul"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
"word": "prōvideō"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "predvídetʹ",
"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
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"word": "предви́деть"
},
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"sense": "notice in advance; foresee",
"word": "ver venir"
}
],
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}
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