anticipation

Some analysts, like Edward Bach of risk consulting firm Verisk Maplecroft, fear these strikes on weapons stores and logistics routes could be "in anticipation of a potential offensive" by federal forces.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Baur’s second theory was that gold performs well in September because of increased jewelry sales in anticipation of Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Despite the excitement and anticipation surrounding potentially one of the biggest games of Week 1, not everyone is treating it as such.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The decision will be awaited with greater anticipation than the hundreds of times it has been made over the last three decades.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The anticipation of Easy Cheese creates its own miracles.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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