as in to anticipate
to realize or know about beforehand
he claimed to have previsioned the crash of the stock market
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Recent Examples of prevision
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Evaluations include frontal crash tests, side crash tests, headlight evaluations, and crash prevision tests.
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Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
6 June 2024
The original version of the bill would have imposed additional restrictions on eligibility for absentee voting but those previsions were removed.
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Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2023
Another controversial prevision among those on Capitol Hill is a phone records program that grants the government the ability to request metadata such as the dates and senders of cellular communications — but not the content of those messages.
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Zachary Halaschak,
Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2020
The discovery confirmed a century-old prediction made by Albert Einstein, the last major prevision of his theory of general relativity that had remained unverified.
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Mark Johnson,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
3 Oct. 2017
Noun
And Argon Mechatronics is producing robots which have the ability to manufacture with great prevision.
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Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Evaluations include frontal crash tests, side crash tests, headlight evaluations, and crash prevision tests.
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Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
6 June 2024
The original version of the bill would have imposed additional restrictions on eligibility for absentee voting but those previsions were removed.
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Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2023
Another controversial prevision among those on Capitol Hill is a phone records program that grants the government the ability to request metadata such as the dates and senders of cellular communications — but not the content of those messages.
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Zachary Halaschak,
Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2020
The discovery confirmed a century-old prediction made by Albert Einstein, the last major prevision of his theory of general relativity that had remained unverified.
—
Mark Johnson,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
3 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prevision
Verb
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The one-two punch of heat and humidity is anticipated to reach Eastern states by midweek, AccuWeather said, possibly lingering through the Independence Day weekend.
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Even if the architects of my building didn’t anticipate global warming, their handiwork, with some minor accommodations, has made the past week bearable.
Noun
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Spiking in popularity, prediction markets, including Polymarket, offer wagers on the likelihood of future events.
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But what do soccer fans from other countries have to say about the bold prediction?
Verb
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The survey is an indicator of companies foreseeing good conditions minus those feeling pessimistic.
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To say legislators should have foreseen this result is shooting fish.
Noun
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This pick is also not a great omen for 2024 lottery pick Nikola Topić.
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There was a book in Sapphire’s den that ran a different set of numbers, the math of omens and outcomes.
Verb
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Over the counter microbiome tests — questionable results As technology has advanced, so too has the market of products that promise to divine your gut health.
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Habermas shares Horkheimer and Adorno’s doubts about such a scheme, which puts too much faith in individuals’ ability to divine truth on their own.
Noun
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The National Weather Service issued an extreme-heat watch at the Grand Canyon for midday Monday through Tuesday, forecasting temperatures that could exceed 110 degrees at the low-elevation Phantom Ranch.
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Preparing for what comes after AGI, the authors write, will take forecasting and benchmarking and continuous monitoring, plus the ability to turn that work into policy quickly, across labs and governments and the research community at the same time.
Noun
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Always alert to mood swings, Hollywood this week is coping with some dauntingly positive portents.
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But there is reason for hope, because the season-one finale of Widow’s Bay is like a beacon in the dark, and all the signs and portents are lining up.
Noun
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And so those last 25 minutes served as a bizarre risk-management experiment that is likely to be a harbinger of what is to come in this tournament.
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Power’s deserted worksites could be received as a harbinger of a world without workers, one in which unmanned machines no longer need the humans who helped build them.
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“Prevision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevision. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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