hope
Usage
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To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. The verb expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? Await (wait for) something implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.
Example Sentences
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The PMB ballot is the best way a backbench MP can hope to bring forward a new law by winning cross-party support for a cause or, ideally, having the bill adopted by the government.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
“I hope that 80 times growth doesn’t continue because that’s just crazy and it’s too hard to handle,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at a conference this month.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Cao and his colleagues hope to use the technology to study conditions such as aging and Alzheimer's disease, both major research areas in his lab.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
So the best investors can hope for in the U.K. is probably that the government will muddle through without succumbing to a political or fiscal collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
And so hanging between hope and horror, we waited out the days.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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