Cal Ripken, Jr.

I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

American Athlete

Tilman J. Fertitta

I absolutely do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we're going to lose our coach. Tom Herman loves the University of Houston. He's happy to be coaching at the University of Houston, and I think there are only a few places Tom Herman would even consider.

American Businessman

Elizabeth Gilbert

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

American Novelist

Kevin Reilly

I, for one - I'm not a believer that, now that the Facebooks and Googles and everyone is entering the content fray, that it's a foregone conclusion that they're just going to get it right and be amazing at it. It's really hard.

Cory Booker

We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

American Politician

Peter Orszag

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

American Economist

Chris Long

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

Use 'foregone' to describe an outcome that is highly predictable or a matter of formality.

Predictable Outcome

'Foregone' suggests that something is not a surprise to anyone involved or observing.

No Surprise

'Foregone' can imply that due to certain circumstances, the outcome could not have been different.

Implies Inevitability

'Foregone' in its archaic sense is mostly used in historical or literary contexts to denote past actions.

Literary Past

When used in a literary sense, 'foregone' can evoke a sense of nostalgia or romance about the past.

Romantic Notion

The archaic 'foregone' may refer to events that have preceded others, establishing a timeline.

Historical Sequence

 generation of antipsychotic drugs were brought in and the promise was that they would have fewer side-effects so people set about doing trials of these new drugs against the old drugs but they gave the old drugs in ridiculously high doses twenty milligrams a day of haloperidol and it's a foregone conclusion if you give a drug at that higher dose that it will have more side

Battling bad science -...

 foregone one we're still creating that narrative and we're making that narrative every day by the choices we make about how we use and manage and value and even think about fresh water so what I'd like to do this morning is talk a little bit about a new approach to fresh water protection that is being

Sandra Postel: Troubled...

 in foregone treatment costs and vaccination costs. And if we can finish polio eradication, the poorest countries in the world are going to save over 50 billion dollars