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  • n  a prophetic vision (as in a dream)
  • n  the power to foresee the future
  • n  seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
  • n  the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

  • The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision.
  • Some sentimentalists, nursing a murky prevision of man as a fat smudge in a chair hovering before a cyclopean TV, with only his massive eyes and a few fingers intact for fixing .
  • Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild .
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  • Graham Turner in Sportinglife.com
    We've been talking to Watford, Lionel and his representatives and it looks likely that the loan will be renewed with the prevision that there will be a 24-hour recall in it,said Turner on the club's official website. "That's the best we...

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