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anticipating

adjective as in anticipant

adjective as in anticipative

adjective as in anticipatory

adjective as in hoping

adjective as in in the family way

adjective as in prognostic

adjective as in prognosticative

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Example Sentences

Studies show that people even experience pleasure from anticipating trips.

A bemused line reading sneaks in when you are anticipating a hammy hard sell.

We are not commemorating her—we are cherishing her and celebrating her and anticipating her return.

Evanhaim is anticipating a climate in which state-wide regulations require them: “We always want to be ahead of things.”

At their luckiest, some writers skewer the present while accidentally anticipating events to come.

There's no use anticipating things disagreeable or otherwise; we'll simply have to take them as they come.

The chance had come in my way, but in anticipating it I had somehow always contemplated operating on some poor boy or old woman.

As for Laura, she continued in her sullenness, anticipating with resentment the assault about to be made upon her soul.

No one remonstrated when once more recourse was had to the fatal policy of anticipating the annual conscription.

A nurse stood over him bathing his wounds to cool the fever, combing his hair, and anticipating all his wants.

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On this page you'll find 280 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anticipating, such as: hopeful, anticipative, anticipatory, awaiting, and expecting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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