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anticipation

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




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That’s partly by design: The company has been trying to juice anticipation by drip-feeding Sarti to U.S. bars, restaurants and stores since June.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

“You can feel the anticipation in the locker room,” Cal quarterback Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Ana Martinez of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce said the tribute items left on the star had been cleared in anticipation of already-scheduled work to repair cracks when it was vandalized.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 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

Alaric brought it to his lips, and the Witchlings leaned forward in anticipation.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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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