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expecting



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Wall Street analysts are expecting a sales decline of 3.1% for the fiscal year ending in May and a 1% decline in the following year.

From Barron's

Decades of this have disillusioned the working and middle classes into expecting nothing can or will change, that it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.

From Salon

Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal were expecting a 0.2% increase.

From The Wall Street Journal

He has seen One Battle After Another, and said he "was not expecting it to start the way it did", describing it as "weird" but good.

From BBC

The city is expecting as much as 28 inches of snow, with high winds and coastal flooding.

From The Wall Street Journal