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a foregone conclusion a result that is obvious to everyone even before it happens. It seems like this year's election results are a foregone conclusion. (not used with the) It's certainly not a foregone conclusion that we'll win. (often + that) See also: conclusion |
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One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up in his brain that this was only the case in old-fashioned days, and that now with the rapidity of modern progress (he had unconsciously become by now a partisan of every sort of progress) the views of society had changed, and that the question whether they would be received in society was not a foregone conclusion. That she would hate a soulless creature he accepted as a foregone conclusion. Wolf Larsen looked curiously at him, as though about to probe and vivisect him, then changed his mind, as from the foregone conclusion that there was nothing there to probe. |
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