prevision

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McGroarty said the WFP managed to distribute food in key locations across the northeast and central highlands of the country in prevision of the winter months.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2022

The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision.

From Time Magazine Archive

"No man will have to fear the wreck of his home life and the destruction of his power to fulfil his family responsibilities through changes of employment quite beyond his own prevision or control."

From Time Magazine Archive

He has the "prevision of a frontiersman" and his "prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence.

From Time Magazine Archive

That law confirmed the prevision indicated in the passages quoted above from Social Statics, and impressed him as one of the three doctrines which are indispensable elements of the general theory of Evolution.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward