anticipate
Usage
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To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? To expect something implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. To 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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Retail sales in October dropped 0.2% from a month earlier, weaker than the flat trade economists anticipated and after the fall in September was revised downward to 0.9%.
Wall Street stocks climbed early Friday as markets weighed fresh commentary from a senior Federal Reserve official and anticipated lower trading volumes in the year-ending holiday stretch.
From Barron's
The Bank of Japan anticipates more rate hikes in the coming year but didn’t specify the timing or magnitude of future increases.
From Barron's
The Bank of Japan anticipates more rate hikes in the coming year but didn’t specify the timing or magnitude of future increases.
From Barron's
Finishing its soundtrack simultaneously was far more grueling than he anticipated.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
