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envisage

[en-viz-ij] / ɛnˈvɪz ɪdʒ /


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Do you envisage a full return of cargo after Hormuz reopens?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The plans, which still need to be approved by parliament, envisage Europe's biggest economy spending more than projected just a few months ago and also taking on greater debt.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

He can envisage them generating enough cash to erase their debt or launch significant share buybacks, he said.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

“We envisage over 20% upside to our price target,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Indeed, it used to be thought that Brunelleschi had produced his demonstration images around 1425 simply because scholars wanted to envisage these images as immediately provoking new art and new theories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Then the budget envisages 2% annual reductions in NDD, totaling $2.5 trillion over the decade.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

He envisages huge efficiency gains to be derived from its incorporation into business operations and practices.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026

The latter envisages closer cooperation in areas including maritime security, cybersecurity and counter-terrorism, an EU official said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

The U.S.-backed peace plan envisages the exchange of the remaining prisoners on an “all-for-all” basis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Ideals are legitimate, and each initially envisages a genuine and innocent good; but they are not realisable together, nor even singly when they have no deep roots in the world.

From The Life of Reason by George Santayana

In a statement, the inquiry said its work was "greater and more complex than it originally envisaged".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Robin Hardy always envisaged his iconic 1973 folk horror film The Wicker Man as the first part of a trilogy.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

He said, however, that the government he envisaged forming after elections would help complete Israel's regional ambitions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

The deal followed a similar agreement with Nissan that envisaged a potentially earlier launch in Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Wthin our cocoon of modest material possessions my playmates of the “right sort” and I envisaged a grown-up future of unexceptional assimilatedness.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

They also establish a strict obligation for migrants subject to expulsion to leave and cooperate with authorities, envisaging harsher penalties, including detention, for those who refuse to do so.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

In a final, unsent letter, addressed to Maximilien Robespierre, she wrote, “speak; it is something to know one’s fate, and with a soul like mine, one is capable of envisaging it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Attempts to avoid the measurement problem—for example, by envisaging a reality in which quantum states don’t collapse at all—have led physicists into strange terrain where measurement outcomes can be subjective.

From Scientific American ● May 22, 2023

"I do not think ... anybody is envisaging a military option in the near-term," said the Western diplomat.

From Reuters ● Dec. 19, 2022

“I don’t want a fuss,” said Harry quickly, envisaging the additional strain this would put on them all.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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