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noun

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Recent Examples of prevision
Verb
And Argon Mechatronics is producing robots which have the ability to manufacture with great prevision. Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 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
  • Many had anticipated Sand would seek the governorship, launching his bid for the seat almost exactly one month after Reynolds announced her retirement.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Treasury anticipates issuing additional guidance on what exactly will fall under this carve-out.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tropical weather experts at Colorado State University echo these predictions, saying overall atmospheric conditions, including wind patterns, will shift in a manner that supports a notable increase in activity.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My preseason prediction of nine wins feels very much in play.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Intel failed to foresee the explosion of the smartphone industry in the 2010s and then the artificial intelligence revolution a decade later.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The commotion has come as a surprise to Cooke, who didn’t foresee her role as such a divisive one.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bad omen when your season starts with a spitting ejection in first minute of first game?
    Greg Cote September 7, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In the final novel of the series, The Last Battle, the destruction of trees and dryads in Lantern Waste, a place tied to the creation of Narnia itself, is one of many portentous omens signalling the end of the world.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • People spotted and speculated about the significance of tiny Steam database updates, new listings in digital game stores, and purported ESRB ratings, trying to divine whether the game was getting any closer to release.
    Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Christ himself warned that reading the signs of apocalypse would be no less difficult than divining a dominatrix’s disdain: Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Its data will feed directly into NOAA's forecasting models to help safeguard satellites, communications systems and power grids from geomagnetic storms.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The team is now preparing to launch on the Bittensor network with a time series forecasting project in finance, finalizing their incentive mechanism, miner, and validator design.
    Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As portents go, after a testing summer for Newcastle, this did not look altogether positive.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Televisual séances are no longer nightly, much less consensual, which is why the move by CBS is seen as a portent of a more general house cleaning over at NBC and ABC.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • While pumpkin spice menu options are the harbinger of fall and Labor Day officially marks its beginning, the start of football season is the true nail in the coffin for summer.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Trump described the city as a harbinger of what unchecked migration could mean for America.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Prevision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevision. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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