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envisage

[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

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

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

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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