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anticipation

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




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Sociologist Allison Daminger has studied this invisible dimension of household work: the planning, anticipation, decision-making and monitoring that continue even when someone else is performing the physical task.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The crowd at Crypto.com Arena buzzed in anticipation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Some 20 percent more members of the security forces will be deployed this weekend after heavy criticism of the anticipation and intelligence gathering of police last week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

But the French are holding their breath - in anticipation of another chapter in this protest next Saturday.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Pay attention,” Jack repeated, shifting his weight from foot to foot in anticipation.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

In 1857, Osborne wrote that he had arrived in California “full of high hopes and bright anticipations of the future” only to find his dreams “have long since perished.”

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

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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