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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

Millicent Angel, 24, says it is hard to envisage a future when the world feels "so unstable" but she still definitely wants children.

From BBC ● 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

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

Renault’s new medium-term financial outlook envisages its group operating margin between 5%-7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

The "Hamburg Declaration" signed on Monday envisages that 100 GW of the targeted 300 GW will be quickly delivered through an "unprecedented fleet of joint offshore wind projects".

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026

He then, a little more seriously, envisages the history of art as a long warfare between the simian instinct of imitation and the God-like instinct of self-expression.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome

The German car giant’s supervisory board unanimously approved a plan which envisaged slashing about 50,000 positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

This dreadful defeat was not the start he or the Spurs power brokers envisaged.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

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 militaries and combatants, if they can be classified in such a way, and even for them we are envisaging an amnesty or alluding to an amnesty as well," Hajiyev 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

“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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