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• Foresee or be prepared for an event, typically an unpleasant one.

  ‘Louise with her big mouth told him on Sunday so hopefully he saw it coming and prepared himself.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Meyerson and his team saw the problem coming quite a few years ago and prepared for it in advance.’
  • ‘In this film, that trust is broken and only one man, alone against the system, sees it coming.’
  • ‘The dinosaurs could not see their nemesis coming, but we can.’