Foresight
Foresight noun - The special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Hiroshi Sato started out as a penniless kid in the slums of Republic City and became a millionaire by his twenties, all due to hard work and the foresight to see the then-untapped potential in consumer automobiles.
Source: Self-Made Man - This works very well if the work is emphasizing the loser's obliviousness, but quite a few works use this trope to emphasize the winner's skill and foresight, no matter how unrealistic that might be.
Source: Surprise Checkmate -
With foresight he learned to work around the axe's twelve-second materialization time, and over time got better at the sword bit by bit if nowhere near able to master it.
Source: How Do I Shot Web?
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