envision
verb (used with object)
to picture mentally, especially some future event or events.
had been envisioning
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past perfect progressiveof envision.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The separation from the father of her four children upended the retirement she had been envisioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
I had been envisioning something like “A Day of Reckoning.”
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019
This, I thought, was what my father had been envisioning all those years ago when words had failed him, not necessarily this scene, but something equally capable of provoking such wonder.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
