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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
envisage . - adjective
visualized ,conceived ,imagined
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Examples
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Ndlovu said the committee would meet next week to map out details of what he described as the envisaged staggered mass action.
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This was the kind of scenario that Heinlein envisaged in his line marriages of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, or a little more formally, with written contracts, as his S-Groups of Friday.
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This was the kind of scenario that Heinlein envisaged in his line marriages of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, or a little more formally, with written contracts, as his S-Groups of Friday.
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One change from the terms envisaged in the April agreement was that the community would participate in Alexkor's mining activities from the date the agreement was made a court order, rather than when mining rights were transferred to the community, as originally envisaged.
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The most moderate editorialists and commentators on this continent have agreed almost unanimously that this is not a program for raising the welfare of the masses such as one would expect if Stalin envisaged a long period of peaceful co-operation and trade with the rest of the world.
The Russian Riddle 1946
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To move toward such a rapprochement of souls is the natural tendency of a foundation with an international character and an idealistic outlook which implies that the entire civilized world is envisaged from a purely intellectual point of view as constituting one single and identical republic of minds.
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If that wasn’t bad enough Lucas grew increasingly insistent that the 6 part Star Wars saga we now have is what he envisaged from the beginning.
Where Star Wars Went (and keeps going) Wrong | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008
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That would go further than the idea envisaged by Google in Kansas City, where it would use only its own network to deliver the video.
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business Sam Schechner 2011
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Issues were not speedily defined as envisaged in the plea procedure; delaying tactics, such as firing legal representatives, were still used.
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From this point onward, earth and water between them held no marvels like to those "M. de C." had "envisaged" -- if I translate him correctly.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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