anticipation
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"This unpredictability triggers the dopamine system, creating a compulsive cycle of seeking and anticipation," University of Leicester lecturer Quynh Hoang wrote.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s important to know the best days for the Eagles are ahead as their young replacements receive early-season experience in anticipation of becoming much better later in the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
On Thursday, the number of vessels passing through the Panama Canal will be reduced by more than 10% in anticipation of lower rainfall.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
American consular teams had conducted advance trips to hospitals along the routes in anticipation, the diplomat said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
“This is great!” she chirruped in her reedy voice, lips wet with anticipation.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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