Thesaurus / expect
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Lawmakers are expected to be in Washington until the start of October, after which they are scheduled to return to their home districts for the last weeks of the campaign season.
ELECTION LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP RETURNS TO WISCONSIN; BIDEN TO FACE LIVE AUDIENCE AT TOWN HALLCOLBY ITKOWITZ, FELICIA SONMEZ, JOHN WAGNERSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTShe is expected to continue in her role next year, if Democrats retain control the House.
TRUMP MOVES CLOSER TO PELOSI IN ECONOMIC AID TALKS, AND HOUSE SPEAKER MUST DECIDE NEXT MOVERACHAEL BADE, ERICA WERNERSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTBiden’s team is going after a population that is generally more averse to in-person interactions and more of his supporters are expected to cast ballots over the next month, either by mail or through early voting.
TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN TRY TO ALLAY CONCERNS ABOUT TRAILING BIDEN IN TELEVISION ADSMICHAEL SCHERER, JOSH DAWSEYSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTEven in states that haven’t made absentee voting easier, the number of ballot requests is still expected to spike.
VOTE BY MAIL: WHICH STATES ALLOW ABSENTEE VOTINGKATE RABINOWITZ, BRITTANY MAYESSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTRedfield told the panel he expected a vaccine to start being available in November or December.
TOP HEALTH OFFICIAL SAYS STATES NEED ABOUT $6 BILLION FROM CONGRESS TO DISTRIBUTE CORONAVIRUS VACCINELENA H. SUNSEPTEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTFor example, there have been 263,000 more deaths in the United States in 2020 than would have been expected based on the past several years.
TRUMP BLAMES BLUE STATES FOR THE CORONAVIRUS DEATH TOLL — BUT MOST RECENT DEATHS HAVE BEEN IN RED STATESPHILIP BUMPSEPTEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIn government personnel lingo, positions that are expected to continue indefinitely are called “permanent” — even though they may turn out not to be — while those with an expected ending date are “temporary” or “term.”
NONPERMANENT FEDERAL WORKERS COULD BE HIRED FOR UP TO 10 YEARS UNDER TRUMP PROPOSALERIC YODERSEPTEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWhile dozens who have directly espoused or at least flirted with the fringe right-wing conspiracy group’s beliefs have been on the ballot this year, only a handful have won their primaries, and just a few are expected to win their race in November.
TRUMP, IN TOWN HALL, SAYS HE WOULDN’T HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY ON PANDEMICCOLBY ITKOWITZ, JOSH DAWSEY, FELICIA SONMEZ, JOHN WAGNERSEPTEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTYou speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWhy expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united, when one virtue makes a man extraordinary?
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOUWORDS RELATED TO EXPECT
- assumes
- believes
- conceives
- concludes
- conjectures
- considers
- disbelieves
- doubts
- expects
- feels
- gathers
- harbors suspicion
- has a hunch
- has doubt
- have sneaks suspicion
- hazards a guess
- holds
- imagines
- is afraid
- mistrusts
- presumes
- reckons
- smells a rat
- speculates
- supposes
- surmises
- thinks
- thinks probable
- understands
- wonders
- accepts
- apprehends
- assumes
- believes
- catches
- compasses
- comprehends
- considers
- deems
- expects
- experiences
- feels
- follows
- gathers
- grasps
- holds
- imagines
- interprets as
- is aware of
- knows
- looks upon
- observes
- perceives
- presumes
- receives
- reckons
- regards
- sees
- sees as
- senses
- supposes
- suspects
- takes in
- thinks
- thinks of as
- accredit
- assume
- bank on
- be convinced
- bet bottom dollar on
- bet on
- build on
- calculate on
- confide in
- count on
- depend on
- expect
- gamble on
- have faith in
- hope
- imagine
- lay money on
- lean on
- look to
- place confidence in
- place trust in
- presume
- reckon on
- rely upon
- suppose
- surmise
- swear by
- take
- take at face value
- think likely
- account
- appraise
- assay
- assess
- believe
- budget
- calculate
- calculate roughly
- cast
- cipher
- class
- classify
- compute
- conjecture
- consider
- count
- decide
- deduce
- determine
- enumerate
- evaluate
- examine
- expect
- figure
- form opinion
- gauge
- guess
- guesstimate
- judge
- look into
- look upon
- number
- outline
- plan
- predict
- prophesy
- rank
- rate
- reason
- reckon
- regard
- run over
- scheme
- set a figure
- size up
- sum
- suppose
- surmise
- suspect
- take the measure of
- tax
- think
- think through
- value
- abide
- anticipate
- await
- bide
- bide one's time
- cool it
- dally
- delay
- expect
- fill time
- foresee
- hang
- hang around
- hang onto your hat
- hang out
- hold back
- hold everything
- hold on
- hold the phone
- hole up
- keep shirt on
- lie in wait
- lie low
- linger
- look for
- look forward to
- mark time
- put on hold
- remain
- save it
- sit tight
- sit up for
- stall
- stand by
- stay
- stay up for
- stick around
- sweat it
- tarry
- watch
- abided
- anticipated
- awaited
- boded
- boded one's time
- cool it
- dallied
- delayed
- expected
- filled time
- foresaw
- held back
- held everything
- held on
- held the phone
- holed up
- hung
- hung around
- hung onto your hat
- hung out
- kept shirt on
- lay in wait
- lay low
- lingered
- looked for
- looked forward to
- mark time
- put on hold
- remained
- sat tight
- sat up for
- saved it
- stalled
- stayed
- stayed up for
- stood by
- stuck around
- sweated it
- tarried
- watched
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