anticipation
Example Sentences
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Contaifer admitted that the way that short trailer clips were spread through different pages "might be annoying for fans", but is a "smart idea" that builds anticipation.
From BBC
As it swings open the photographer holds his breath in anticipation.
From Literature
Live cattle futures—the price meatpackers pay feedlots for their livestock—are down 4% over the past month in anticipation of a strike.
The anticipation for the nominees to hear who else had won must have been palpable.
From BBC
There is opportunity in electrification given anticipation of data center buildout, though the sector is vulnerable to an energy shock like the one that followed the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, he adds.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
