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prevision

[pri-vizh-uhn] / prɪˈvɪʒ ən /












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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It must be remembered that the supposed prevision would not create the future any more than memory creates the past.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Loan-loss previsions, however, also jumped 66% from the year-ago period to 4.04 billion pesos, with cost of risk shooting up to 1.66% from 1.13%.

From Reuters Jul. 21, 2023

Feinstein acknowledged it included previsions that unanimously passed the Senate in May.

From US News Dec. 9, 2014

I don’t have any idea why such previsions came to me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

He foresaw the moment when the explosion would take place, and we know that his previsions were pretty correct.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas père

The ways of volcanoes are past the previsions of men.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort




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