hope
Usage
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To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. The verb expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? Await (wait for) something implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.
Example Sentences
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"At dawn, I still believed he survived. But he's still missing. I have lost hope."
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“It’s that exact momentum that we need. When you double down on something, you’re giving more than hope, and you’re saying welcome back. Please come and do your work. Don’t stop doing this,” Nazarian said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
It has left people wondering whether to buy now for the winter, or hold off in the hope that prices will fall – with the risk that they could rise again.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
But if Ms. Smart loses—for the first time in five years—I would hope Ayo Edebiri gets a well-deserved lead-actress-comedy Emmy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Joey is convinced that Carville is her only hope for a cure, but at times it seems like an impossible dream.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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He told AFP he hopes that Americans can somehow rediscover a "balanced system of people that are willing to reach across the party aisle" so that compromise is no longer a "bad word."
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Oroco hopes that its Mexican asset, which contains around a billion tons of copper ore and is forecast to have an operational life of twenty years, will commence production in 2032.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Blondie’s two cubs, believed to be 2 to 3 months old, will spend the rest of their childhood in captivity in the hopes that they can one day be released back into the wild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It hopes to dampen the speculation that would surround Borthwick if the end of his contract was tied to that of England's World Cup campaign.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
In the nineteenth century, people wrote anyway, in the hopes that communications to loved ones would eventually show up, even if months or years late.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Meta said it hoped the notes would become the standard way it adds context to misleading posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, ending the need for the fact-checking program.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
There are some opportunities for the company to tackle in streaming, but perhaps not as many as once hoped when Walmart acquired Vizio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Initially, Barritt and Haines had hoped to reopen on the same property, but they said they ultimately had to look at other locations after the landlord decided not to rebuild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He added they gave their "decent, hardworking" counterparts a bad name and hoped to put "the cowboys out of business".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It didn’t go as well as he had hoped.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Community activist Tommy Comerford was part of a local group that began pursuing the idea of building a golf resort in the 1990s, hoping to create jobs and stem economic decline.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
I’m hoping people see that all the colors and shapes and how bedazzled I am is a reflection of my identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She'd travelled to a hospital in Coron, hoping to find Marlon among the survivors – but he remains unaccounted for.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Schwartz and Vitale, for instance, are hoping to finalize a study soon that looks at how cats may greet their caretakers — or express a form of sadness or confusion when they leave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’s no problem,” I said, hoping that didn’t sound like the out-and-out lie it was.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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