prevision
Americannoun
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the act or power of foreseeing; prescience
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a prophetic vision or prophecy
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For instance, the drug-pricing deal “doesn’t impact launch prices” of new drugs, said Ramsey Baghdadi, co-founder of Prevision Policy, an information service that specializes in pharmaceutical analysis.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021
Future Time Clairvoyance, Second Sight, Prevision, etc., are facts as fully accepted by such societies as are the facts of telepathy.
From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker
Prevision would be more accurately termed Whole vision—seeing the whole and not the tiny section.
From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine
Prevision and exact calculation do not count for so much in the lives of governments and of peoples.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
Prevision, calculation of resources, plans of campaign—mostly of an underground kind—are necessary to conspiracy.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
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