anticipation
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U.S. stocks snapped a three-day losing streak Tuesday, driven by a recovery in chip stocks and anticipation of technology earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It’s not that the clothes were ever disappointing, she clarifies — it’s just that the anticipation was such a big part of the process.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Elvie said police had advised her family to pack belongings on Sunday morning in anticipation of the grass fire reaching their area.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It was really wonderful to see the anticipation on everyone’s face in the crew about what outfit I was going to show up in and what wild thing I was going to say.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
All of us fell into a state of suspended anticipation, a slow-motion moment.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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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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