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synonyms for anticipatory

  • anticipant
  • anticipating
  • anticipative
  • awaiting
  • expecting
  • hopeful
See also synonyms for: anticipatorily
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How to use anticipatory in a sentence

Still, some of the recent job cuts and hiring freezes are unusual because they are anticipatory, rather than a reflection of companies that are already struggling.
'ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE.' SOME CEOS ARE CUTTING STAFF EVEN AS THE LABOR MARKET BOOMSALANA SEMUELSAUGUST 5, 2022TIME
The likelihood of anticipatory trauma can be high even if the risk of injury and death is low.
MASS SHOOTINGS CAN TRAUMATIZE PEOPLE WHO WEREN’T EVEN THEREMAGGIE KOERTH (MAGGIE.KOERTH-BAKER@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JUNE 9, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.
5 TAKEAWAYS FROM THE LATEST UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTBRADY DENNIS, SARAH KAPLANFEBRUARY 28, 2022WASHINGTON POST
People are making big anticipatory plans, and this trend will only continue as more and more people get access to the vaccine and states continue to open up.
MARKETING BRIEFING: ‘ASK FOR AUSTIN, ASK FOR MIAMI’: AS MARKETERS LEAN INTO OOH WITH PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT, HOT LOCATIONS ARE CHANGINGKRISTINA MONLLOSJUNE 1, 2021DIGIDAY
During the lead-up to the appointment, you may experience what Bidwell Smith calls “anticipatory grief.”
HOW AT-HOME EUTHANASIA CAN PROVIDE COMFORT TO PETS AND OWNERSKATHRYN STREETERMAY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST
So when they are deciding whom to support, party chairs, delegates, donors and elected officials make speculative, anticipatory judgments about how candidates will perform in the general election.
HOW ‘STRATEGIC’ BIAS KEEPS AMERICANS FROM VOTING FOR WOMEN AND CANDIDATES OF COLORLGBTQ-EDITOROCTOBER 29, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
The future is quite enough hampered with the past, without setting anticipatory traps and springes for unwary feet.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRD
Yet I should be overdoing this (purely anticipatory) prudence to pass over the episode of the sky-blue uniform entirely.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONS
They had discarded their shields, but were handling assegais in a manner that was highly anticipatory.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORD
He was evidently bursting with the anticipatory pride of telling me something very much to his credit.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 156, APRIL 9, 1919VARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO ANTICIPATORY

  • anticipating
  • anticipative
  • anticipatory
  • awaiting
  • expecting
  • hopeful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.