verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foretell the future (= say or show what will happen in the future )
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Some people think that dreams can foretell the future.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
future
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I am, but can not foretell the future .
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Luckily, they happen upon a blind poet who foretells their future and helps them start their journey.
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It could not foretell the future .
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He had the power both of foretelling the future and of changing his shape at will.
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The most extreme pessimists foretell a future of demographically driven privation, environmental overshoot, and economic collapse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everything happened as Merlin foretold.
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Nostradamus is said to have foretold the rise of Hitler.
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The end of the world is foretold in the biblical book of Revelations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I am, but can not foretell the future.
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I can not foretell what proposals it will contain, but without an effective ceasefire no one can be deployed.
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It could not foretell the future.
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Luckily, they happen upon a blind poet who foretells their future and helps them start their journey.
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None of us had foretold that our games would end up on life-support systems in intensive care.
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The most extreme pessimists foretell a future of demographically driven privation, environmental overshoot, and economic collapse.
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This act, as noted above, had been foretold of the Messiah by the prophet Zechariah.