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

That prevision proved essential when last month Mrs. Taylor did prematurely bear her brood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons.

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

The determining categories of the activity he is most fully conscious of, are interest, idea, prevision, purpose, and that selective activity which goes to its termination in some achieved end.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various