anticipate
Usage
What are other ways to say anticipate?
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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The later stages of the show highlight a few transitional designers whose work either shaped or anticipated the Midcentury Modernist movement that usurped Art Deco.
The Conference Board’s data also come after the U.S. economy was shown to have expanded at a faster pace than anticipated in the third quarter.
When you get to a certain altitude at Whitney, there are little microclimates, so it’s really hard to anticipate what it’s going to be like.
From Los Angeles Times
Such hostility had been anticipated by Donald, who issued virtual reality headsets to help prepare his players.
From BBC
“Despite AI bubble and valuation concerns, we see current elevated multiples correctly anticipating above-trend earnings growth, an AI capex boom, rising shareholder payouts, and easier fiscal and monetary policies,” the pair added.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
