anticipation
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In anticipation of all these things coming together, crypto stocks have surged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The states pointed to the changes they would have to make now in anticipation of a possible final rule.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
In anticipation of a busy winter storm season, Swain said he’s clearing his calendar “from January through March this coming year to be available if things get a little bit wild.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The key distinction is that much of the late 1990s telecom buildout created capacity in anticipation of future customers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
In anticipation of selling them some, Lippmann accumulated more.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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