envisage
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Do you envisage a full return of cargo after Hormuz reopens?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
It has led some in Parliament to envisage a scenario where Nigel Farage fights and wins one by-election, only to be confronted by another.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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
He can envisage them generating enough cash to erase their debt or launch significant share buybacks, he said.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 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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Then there is the Iris² project which envisages a network of communication satellites aiming to rival Starlink -- but that will only launch in 2029, aiming to be fully operational a year later.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
Then the budget envisages 2% annual reductions in NDD, totaling $2.5 trillion over the decade.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
He envisages huge efficiency gains to be derived from its incorporation into business operations and practices.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
But James Joyce, potentially a poet, and a realist of the De Maupassant breed, envisages Dublin and the Dubliners with a cruel scrutinising gaze.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
Cadillac chief executive officer Dan Towriss made it clear last week that he had always envisaged there would be a time when Graeme Lowdon would be replaced as team principal.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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 mayor oversees the Metrolink tram service, and it is envisaged that by 2030, all local rail services will be part of the network.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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
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... combatants... we are envisaging an amnesty or alluding to an amnesty," he 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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