anticipation
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The director, best known for violent film classics Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, has said he is "keen with anticipation to give the West End a great night out".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Instead of using binary prediction-market contracts, the ETF will invest in leaps, or long-term equity anticipation securities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
The researchers also tracked pacing, a repetitive behavior in carnivores that is often linked to anticipation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Schneider is retooling in anticipation of increased use of AI in the construction and manufacturing spheres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It was Thursday, third period, and for the first time in a long while Fadi felt a sense of eager anticipation buzz through his body.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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
In 1857, Osborne wrote that he had arrived in California “full of high hopes and bright anticipations of the future” only to find his dreams “have long since perished.”
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
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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