envisage
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He can envisage them generating enough cash to erase their debt or launch significant share buybacks, he said.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
It's hard to envisage a lightning bolt at this stage.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
“We envisage over 20% upside to our price target,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Scotland are scheduled to play West Indies on the opening day of the tournament at Eden Gardens in Kolkata and do not envisage that fixture being pushed back at this stage.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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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Enbridge’s expansion project envisages adding about 90 miles of new pipeline that connects to the main corridor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The "Hamburg Declaration" signed on Monday envisages that 100 GW of the targeted 300 GW will be quickly delivered through an "unprecedented fleet of joint offshore wind projects".
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
He envisages huge efficiency gains to be derived from its incorporation into business operations and practices.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
It envisages new investments and "exciting development ideas" that can "create jobs, opportunity and hope for future Gaza".
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Professor Geddes, in fact, envisages our civic shell as becomes a brilliant biologist, who also happens to be a man of historic imagination, ethical impulses, and aesthetic perceptions.
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick
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
For a player who has so often been Arsenal's difference-maker this season, it was not the contribution he would have envisaged before the club's first Champions League final since 2006.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Macron said later Sunday that France had had "never envisaged" a naval deployment in the Strait of Hormuz but rather a security mission that would be "coordinated with Iran".
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Richard envisaged somebody young and alert like their houseboy, Ugwu, but Harrison turned out to be a small stooped stick of a man, middle-aged, wearing an oversize white shirt that stopped below his knees.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
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 militaries and combatants, if they can be classified in such a way, and even for them we are envisaging an amnesty or alluding to an amnesty as well," Hajiyev 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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