envision

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Thus world peace - at least the sort of peace that most of us envision, which is sustained by international cooperation and universal disarmament rather than subjugation and the capacity for hair-trigger retaliation - would challenge the status quo of the world's largest economies, as they have come to constitute themselves.

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  • And if they haven't already, start putting every amount of scouting effort into the five top players to be chosen in the June draft -- envision how a Blake Griffin, James Harden, —  ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
  • Yet to justify a world without nuclear weapons, what Obama would really have to envision is a world without war, or without threats of war. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • "It's a broad concept, but what we envision is a high-quality rural residential community with a sense of place," Chris Turner said. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • What they did not envision was an overworked bullpen that would lengthen them.
  • Thus world peace - at least the sort of peace that most of us envision, which is sustained by international cooperation and universal disarmament rather than subjugation and the capacity for hair-trigger retaliation - would challenge the status quo of the world's largest economies, as they have come to constitute themselves. —  Political Waves
 

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envision:   envisioned ·  envisioning ·  envisions
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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