envisage
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Do you envisage a full return of cargo after Hormuz reopens?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“However, we still envisage another rate hike before the year-end.”
From MarketWatch ● 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
It's hard to envisage a lightning bolt at this stage.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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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The plan envisages slashing the three states' collective water consumption by up to 3.7 billion cubic meters per year until 2036 -- the equivalent of 1.5 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Before leaving for Barcelona this summer, he played up front for Newcastle at times last season and has previously said that, in time, he envisages playing more centrally.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“It moves developments closer to our baseline scenario for the conflict, which envisages an end to hostilities and a normalization of shipping by the end of this month.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 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
Then was seen with what majesty the British sailor-man envisages a new situation.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling
Manchester Life was always envisaged as a platform for further investment.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
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 agreement envisaged an end to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
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 do not think ... anybody is envisaging a military option in the near-term," said the Western diplomat.
From Reuters ● Dec. 19, 2022
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
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