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anticipation
noun as in expectation
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contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, impatience, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, trust
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noun as in readiness; forethought
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Strong matches
foreboding, forecast, foresight, foretaste, forethought, inkling, intuition, preconception, premonition, prescience, presentiment, prevision, realization
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Example Sentences
There is no question that in Lebanon in particular there has been a great deal of anticipation.
The risk is that the market senses a shift coming and pushes up Treasury yields in anticipation of foreign buyers’ drifting away.
It had rallied 5.1% over the past five sessions in anticipation of upbeat earnings.
"We expect quarterly growth to pick up only gradually in the near term as geopolitical uncertainty persists and domestic business and consumer confidence remains subdued, including in anticipation of further tax rises," the OBR said.
And the associations with danger—and suspense, anxiety, anticipation and adrenaline, he says—are even more likely to slow, if not cure, the breakdown of brain functions caused by the disease.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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