envisaging

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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

Both leaders said the long stalled two-state solution, envisaging independent states for the Israelis and Palestinians, was the best way to create peace.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 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