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anticipation

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




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Property prices have also gone up in recent weeks in places like Georgia and Armenia, partly in anticipation of another wave of Russian emigrants, say real-estate agents in both countries.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

WorldCom, Global Crossing and Qwest spent billions laying fiber-optic cable, building long-haul networks and expanding data-center capacity in anticipation of this demand.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, on Tuesday afternoon, a group of more than two dozen protesters gathered outside the Trump National Golf Club entrance in anticipation of the president’s arrival.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

"The anticipation is massive for this one and all I can say is that coming into this team you can feel the buzz in the air," Lines said.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

It’s the expression people wear when they’re about to deliver bad news, and my adrenaline rises in anticipation.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Only in the 20th century did readers recognize its uncanny anticipations of relativity and the big-bang theory.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2021

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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