expecting
Example Sentences
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"We are expecting more cases when the rains start," Kibati said.
From Barron's
In early January, they travelled from their home in Washington, DC to Tehran to visit family - expecting a short, routine trip.
From BBC
The home support will be expecting three points - but if Forest falter the pressure on Dyche will intensify.
From BBC
IRS computers might be expecting the numbers received from the tax forms of certain prediction-market platforms to match up with taxpayer returns.
From MarketWatch
With regard to a Hemingway purloining on “Love and Theft”: “Dylan implants only part of the original sentence, while presumably expecting us to cough up the whole.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.