envisage
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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
“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
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Then the budget envisages 2% annual reductions in NDD, totaling $2.5 trillion over the decade.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the trade arrangement with China, which also involves lower tariffs on Canadian agricultural products, envisages increased investment by Chinese EV makers in the Canada economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
He envisages huge efficiency gains to be derived from its incorporation into business operations and practices.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
I ask him what kind of future he envisages for the 48 young lives he helped save.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
He envisages phenomena from a broad, cosmic point of view; he beholds things sub specie aeternitatis.
From Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev by Seltzer, Thomas
The mayor oversees the Metrolink tram service, and it is envisaged that by 2030, all local rail services will be part of the network.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
The biggest missing piece is the church’s main entrance, known as the Glory Facade, which Gaudí envisaged at the top of a monumental staircase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Carney said that as envisaged, about a third, or 40, of the GlobalEye produced would be assembled in Canada, creating about 3,000 jobs in the aerospace sector—a good chunk of it in Quebec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Macron said later Sunday that France had had "never envisaged" a naval deployment in the Strait of Hormuz but rather a security mission that would be "coordinated with Iran".
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Fairies, as envisaged by the Muggle, inhabit tiny dwellings fashioned out o f flower petals, hollowed-out toadstools and similar.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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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
Nick Mackenzie, the boss of pub chain Greene King, told the BBC's Today programme the rise in the minimum wage was "slightly higher than we were envisaging".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
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 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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