anticipate
Usage
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To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? To expect something implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. To await (wait for) something implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.
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Ahead of the holiday season, Wenzel said these metrics bode well as the company continues to anticipate strong purchase volume growth and payment rates are expected to stay elevated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Accused of failing to anticipate and contain the street violence, the government has pledged to restore order, and had announced partial curfews in Paris and some other cities on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
"It helps us map complex disease with such precision that we can begin to anticipate its course and intervene before the most serious damage occurs."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
"Piracy… is taking up a larger and larger share of the revenues that they would anticipate being able to generate through their subscription models. So yes, it is a worry for them."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Then she can anticipate the categories of words that can complete it; in this case, it’s likely to be a noun.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The International Energy Agency anticipates a 25-percent copper supply deficit by 2035 if new deposits are not developed worldwide.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
He anticipates a rapid acceleration of product development and deployment in robotics over the coming 12 to 24 months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Gawrelski anticipates a near-term hit to Meta’s earnings due to litigation costs and a ramp-up of infrastructure spending to support Muse’s product trajectory.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
GEO Group said it anticipates receiving $705 million in proceeds from the sales, after taxes and transaction fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
“He anticipates it constantly when you’re abroad,” she said.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
This year it's launching just weeks before GTA 6 - arguably the most anticipated video game of the decade.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Weeks before Serbia's highly anticipated election, Zoran Kesic, the country's star late-night talk show host, opened his monologue with a stark warning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Super Micro unexpectedly disclosed that its revenue and profitability could be much stronger than originally anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Rain is anticipated for Southern California on Wednesday into Thursday as the National Weather Service cautioned about potential beach hazards and thunderstorms from Oxnard to the Mexico border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Since Fireball had always been a community word-of-mouth event, we should have anticipated the future and the changes it brings.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
During the early days of the bull market, Citrini established its reputation by correctly anticipating several popular investment themes, from AI to the advent of GLP-1s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Nomura likes the Japanese pharmaceutical wholesaler’s approach to anticipating investor expectations by undertaking reform in wholesaling business, formulating strategies to boost return on equity, and enhancing shareholder returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Rather than simply responding to information from the outside world, the brain is constantly anticipating what will happen next.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Now the real issue is ensuring that this doesn’t happen again. … We obviously need to be better at anticipating the kind of mobilization that is unfolding.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The German army had prepared well, anticipating an Allied invasion of France.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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