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.
—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
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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
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But, by 2030, AI’s intelligence per watt (to reference a new metric recently introduced by Chris Re and colleagues at Stanford) will be dramatically higher, to a degree that few today are anticipating or have yet internalized.—
Rob Toews,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2026
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And traders have consistently anticipated key economic data points, like the rate of US inflation and interest rate decisions from the Federal Reserve.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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To be sure, some of the worst-case predictions did not materialize, such as an immediate recession or a housing market crash.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
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Below are five bold predictions about what the world of artificial intelligence will look like in the year 2030.—
Rob Toews,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2026
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Originally foreseen as the second Air Jordan of Michael’s post-player era, the Air Jordan 16 was designed by Wilson Smith III after Tinker Hatfield relinquished the reins.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
18 June 2026
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As part of that, Warsh said the Fed could make changes to its usual release of projections every three months showing where Fed officials foresee interest rates, the economy and inflation heading.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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And what might be a good omen has been unearthed during the building activity at Sojourner Place at Park.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
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Long before scientists understood solar wind or magnetism, people associated auroras with spirits, omens, warriors, or celestial beings.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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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.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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According to Esteve Umbert, one of the architects, Guadì also left geometric clues to help with construction, such as a hyperbolic paraboloid used to divine the shape of a church spire.—
Seth Doane,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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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.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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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.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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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.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
17 June 2026
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In the shadows of the long-hut, the elders muttered among themselves—of portents and crops and weather and the storage of grain.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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The development could be a harbinger of what’s to come as the USTR gears up to hold public hearings in early July regarding its recent Section 301 forced labor investigations into more than 60 countries.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
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And, if last week’s sell-off in tech stocks is a harbinger, that moment may not be very far away.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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“Prevision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevision. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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