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[en-viz-ij] / ɛnˈvɪz ɪdʒ /


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“However, we still envisage another rate hike before the year-end.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 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

"I never did envisage even playing for Scotland," he admits.

From BBC Mar. 30, 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

The group, currently numbering 12, envisages growing food to sell, holding workshops and retreats - and even setting up a "granny agency" to look after children.

From BBC Jun. 5, 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

Professor Geddes, in fact, envisages our civic shell as becomes a brilliant biologist, who also happens to be a man of historic imagination, ethical impulses, and aesthetic perceptions.

From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes

None of this was envisaged in the plans for Vision 2030.

From BBC Jul. 29, 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

“If developments turn out as currently envisaged, the policy rate will be raised at one of the forthcoming monetary policy meetings,” said Norges Bank Gov. Ida Wolden Bache.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

A Y junction was the original shape of the line as envisaged in the first plans for a line from London to Birmingham that branched to Manchester and Leeds.

From BBC May 19, 2026

This was not precisely what we had envisaged.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

"Even with regard to former... combatants... we are envisaging an amnesty or alluding to an amnesty," he said.

From Reuters Sep. 22, 2023

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

For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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