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noun

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Recent Examples of prevision
Verb
Evaluations include frontal crash tests, side crash tests, headlight evaluations, and crash prevision tests. 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. 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. 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
  • The company anticipates cleanup efforts to wrap up at the end of August, but the target may be adjusted as needed to ensure safety.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • To say it was highly anticipated is an understatement: crowds gathered outside the church, as did the press, eager to see the high ranking British aristocrat wed one of the country’s wealthiest women.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • The problem is that making these predictions accurately is difficult.
    Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Ebadi made the prediction as a tenuous ceasefire appeared to be holding.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Many business leaders and others remain rattled because most people did not foresee the massive tariffs that Trump rolled out earlier this year.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • What the optimists did not foresee was that power could eventually shift back.
    SARAH BUSH, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • For England head coach Lee Carsley, positive omens surrounded him before this summer’s Under-21 European Championship had even begun.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Every morning, my phone screen lights up to more ill omens.
    Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • One problem is divining what the Founders intended.
    Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • Ceasefire or not, divining exactly where the Trump administration stands is made all but impossible by Trump’s volatility.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Appearances aren’t deceptive; the portents are grim.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 12 June 2025
  • Thus, the negative GDP change should not be taken as a portent of looming disaster.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The result served as a harbinger to motion picture studios to avoid anime big screen adaptation.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 27 June 2025
  • But some of the museum’s fans saw their sudden disappearance as a harbinger of worse things to come.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • July 4th weather forecast in Kansas City Temperatures are expected to return to the 90s on Independence Day, but the higher humidity will push heat index values to the mid-to-upper 90s.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
  • Heavy rainfall may contribute to flash flooding at times, according to the National Weather Service regional forecast offices.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 1 July 2025

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“Prevision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevision. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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