as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
I'm trying to envisage you on a surfboard
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Recent Examples of envisage
It should be recalled that such a development is not envisaged by the plans of the Kremlin and its puppets.
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Maya Mehrara, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
The platform has also been designed as a marketplace, which Lanka envisages will eventually allow anyone, from companies to universities, to share and monetize their private agricultural data sets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
Over all, critics fear that the memorial is simultaneously too big for Victoria Tower Gardens—and will displace attention from its other monuments—and yet too small to ever be a meaningful gathering place or campus, as originally envisaged by the government.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
The draft deal envisages that the two countries will jointly develop Ukraine’s mineral resources, including oil and gas, and sees the U.S. drop demands for a right to $500 billion in potential revenue from the agreement, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the deal on Tuesday.
—Chloe Taylor,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
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Maya Mehrara, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
The platform has also been designed as a marketplace, which Lanka envisages will eventually allow anyone, from companies to universities, to share and monetize their private agricultural data sets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
Over all, critics fear that the memorial is simultaneously too big for Victoria Tower Gardens—and will displace attention from its other monuments—and yet too small to ever be a meaningful gathering place or campus, as originally envisaged by the government.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
The draft deal envisages that the two countries will jointly develop Ukraine’s mineral resources, including oil and gas, and sees the U.S. drop demands for a right to $500 billion in potential revenue from the agreement, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the deal on Tuesday.
—Chloe Taylor,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for envisage
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The guitar bolts and sweeping synths beg you to imagine Carti as some kind of shadow boss, levitating in the sky like SpongeBob going Goofy Goober mode.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Future May Be Port-Free Just imagine: no USB-C connector at the base of the phone, with only charging through a charging pad as an option, and with data synced exclusively wirelessly.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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For Henshaw-Plath, the enduring lesson of Gamergate was that social media platforms as they were originally envisioned were only as good as the people using them.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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Take a look at how Omar Kelly envisions the first round of the 2025 NFL Mock Draft playing out.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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Morocco will see the deepest eclipse on the continent, with up to 18% coverage.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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After Uncle Sam got on the motorcycle, as previously seen on every night of both residencies, there was an edit, and then a cut right to the skeletal avatar driving around a neon cartoon rendering of the streets of Las Vegas.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Envisage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/envisage. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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