expectant
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The expectant parents married in April 2024, a year after Kaplan — whose producing credits include Netflix’s “To All the Boys” film series — popped the question.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
The crowd at the 42,000-seater Stade Atlantique will be loud, big and expectant - it is on course to set a new record attendance for a Women's Six Nations match in France.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Kimmel had told a joke last week about how Melania Trump had “a glow like an expectant widow.”
From Slate • May 2, 2026
On Kimmel’s April 23 show, the host presented a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech where he joked that the first lady had “a glow like an expectant widow.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Then she turns her expectant face toward me.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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