Thesaurus results for PREVISION

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verb

Definition of prevision

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

Noun

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

Now Iran keeps opening and closing it, and together with Oman, the Arab nation on the other side of the strait, is anticipating charging tolls.

— Ron Kampeas, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
Service is highly personalized and accessible with the touch of a button, with butlers trained to anticipate and respond to guest needs and preferences.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of anticipate

Noun

The quest for fast, accurate wildfire predictions FireSat is the latest step in Cal Fire’s yearslong effort to improve wildfire detection and assessment.

— Reeti Malhotra July 25, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
There is a difference, however, between the default belief that certain predictions are wrong and the default belief that certain predictions are embarrassing.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

Definition of prediction

Verb

But although few, then, could possibly have foreseen the cataclysm of the twentieth-century wars, the hatred was already there in the anti-semitism of old France, in the divisions over Dreyfus.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
On this occasion, here came a controversy few could have foreseen.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of foresee

Noun

Meanwhile, industrial and real estate investment plunged in the first half of the year, a bad omen for the world’s second-biggest economy.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Diarists and observers, including hymn writer John Newton and militia officers, often treated the event as an omen reflecting the gravity of the Revolution.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of omen

Noun

Whether prediction markets could aggregate useful data for forecasting wildfires remains an open question.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Connected to local weather stations and regional forecasting models, the foldable system receives early warnings of incoming storms, extreme snowfall, or hail.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026

Definition of forecasting

Noun

Things are also tough for their friends, Elle (Yasmin Finney) and Tao (William Gao), whose constant bickering seems to be an ominous portent for their on-again-off-again relationship.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
The push for the category, which comes after Hot Ones earned Daytime Emmys noms in 2022 and 2023, carries symbolic portent, given the category’s housing of traditional late night; a nomination would truly signal a passing of the torch.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 July 2026

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