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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Fed officials hope to see signs that inflation was contained in February, but the report was never going to sway the central bank to cut interest rates at its next meeting in eight days.
From MarketWatch
Fed officials hope to see signs that inflation was contained in February, but the report was never going to sway the central bank to cut interest rates at its next meeting in eight days.
From MarketWatch
It was the most Iranian sentence I could imagine: despair and hope in the same breath, separated by a comma.
"I understand the situation is difficult but I hope the conflict will soon end and the prices will come back to the previous levels," she said.
From Barron's
After three bleak years, hopes are high that the eurozone's industrial powerhouse will stage a recovery this year on the back of a public spending bonanza unleashed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
