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anticipation

[an-tis-uh-pey-shuhn] / ænˌtɪs əˈpeɪ ʃən /




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U.S. stocks snapped a three-day losing streak Tuesday, driven by a recovery in chip stocks and anticipation of technology earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

It’s not that the clothes were ever disappointing, she clarifies — it’s just that the anticipation was such a big part of the process.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Elvie said police had advised her family to pack belongings on Sunday morning in anticipation of the grass fire reaching their area.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

It was really wonderful to see the anticipation on everyone’s face in the crew about what outfit I was going to show up in and what wild thing I was going to say.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

All of us fell into a state of suspended anticipation, a slow-motion moment.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

It is always filtered through layers of worldviews, social practices, historical memories and anticipations of the future.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2024

And they do that through trying to anticipate how we might get hurt and reacting to those anticipations.

From Seattle Times Nov. 13, 2023

There were bright songs about times and places, memories and anticipations, “Saturday afternoon” and “the future” — and about how the world of tomorrow might be a more just and peaceful place.

From Washington Post Aug. 20, 2021

Only in the 20th century did readers recognize its uncanny anticipations of relativity and the big-bang theory.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2021

But his exhortations toward national unity were less descriptions than anticipations, less reminders of the way we were than predictions of what we could become.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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