envisage
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“However, we still envisage another rate hike before the year-end.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
But just being a part of Spain's World Cup squad was something Merino could not envisage just a few months ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
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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
The latter envisages closer cooperation in areas including maritime security, cybersecurity and counter-terrorism, an EU official said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 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
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
“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
The agreement envisaged an end to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
He recognized that my life was starting in earnest and would take a different course from the one he had envisaged and planned for.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
"Even with regard to former... combatants... we are envisaging an amnesty or alluding to an amnesty," he said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 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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