envisage
verb (used with object)
to contemplate; visualize.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Here, then, is the new America in one aspect—armed for a wider influence and a harder fight than any she has envisaged before.
From Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... by Arthur D. Hall