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noun

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Recent Examples of prevision
Noun
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
  • Betting on a new foundation Azulay anticipated this shift.
    William Jones, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • Chicago drafted Horton in the first round of the 2022 MLB Draft and his debut in the big leagues has been highly anticipated since then.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The bitcoin price has rocketed to over $100,000 per bitcoin, up 30% from its April lows, triggering a wave of bullish bitcoin price predictions that could see the bitcoin price eventually flip gold’s $20 trillion market capitalization.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • If that prediction comes true, who knows what might happen at Oakmont and Royal Portrush.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • These problems are most exacerbated in the Northwest (61 percent) and West (52 percent) regions, further illustrating the issues that were foreseen out on the West Coast.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
  • Quarter-sized hail (1 inch) is foreseen with the incoming storm.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump's experience with special elections as omens Republicans now have 220 House seats, Democrats 213.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Trump has had experience with the omens special elections can carry.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Trump is pushing hard and fast for the Kremlin to agree to terms to end the war that Putin has clearly divined will improve, not worsen, over time.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Strategists often look at technical trends in stocks’ movements, such as their 200-day moving average, in an attempt to divine their future.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Matthew stresses royalty, prefacing the birth with heavenly portents; afterward, Magi bear royal gifts to a future king.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But the attacks could have been interpreted very differently: as a horrific case of blowback and a portent of resistance to U.S. hegemony.
    Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • So their arrival in the world of the New Avengers may be a harbinger of scary things to come.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 May 2025
  • Was Clase’s poor showing against the New York Yankees in last season’s playoffs a harbinger of pending problems?
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Now many of the largest U.S. companies are cutting or withdrawing their financial forecasts for this year, citing the tariffs.
    Maria Aspan, NPR, 3 May 2025
  • There is not a single manager in place at the hurricane-prone Houston-Galveston forecast office, according to a NOAA staff member who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 2 May 2025

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“Prevision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevision. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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