anticipate
Usage
What are other ways to say anticipate?
To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? To expect something implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. To 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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But experts say the failure to anticipate the sugar shortfall before allowing exports has raised questions about the government's forecasts.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Should funding conditions for AI “hyperscalers” take a significant turn for the worse, some Wall Street investors and analysts anticipate a government backstop to emerge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Schools are starting the year with a rule that is not written into their internal regulations, except perhaps for those that tried to anticipate something, but that remains very limited."
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The findings could help researchers anticipate how mutations affecting the initiator may alter gene activity and contribute to a range of disorders.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
What he neglected to anticipate in between was his curiosity about the Rossi family and their circus.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Our Constitution anticipates that there will be clashes between the branches of our government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Oxford Economics anticipates that manufacturers who stand to be most impacted include those in the cement, paper, printing, wood, clothing and electronics equipment sectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Simpson anticipates that it will be “surreal” to put on his game jersey and fulfill a dream of playing in the NFL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
For the full year, Cisco anticipates $72.2 billion to $73.4 billion of revenue, also blowing past Wall Street expectations of $69.1 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Phaistos disk anticipates humanity’s next efforts at printing, which similarly used cut type or blocks but applied them to paper with ink, not to clay without ink.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Last year over 350,000 people flocked to the halls of the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany to get a chance to see and play the most hotly anticipated games.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
His war with Iran unintentionally set off a scramble for renewable energy sources, which promise to be cheaper in the long run and available on a faster timescale than many initially anticipated.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
A Greenlandic commission is to present a highly anticipated report Friday to determine whether Denmark's forced contraception of thousands of the Arctic island's indigenous Inuit constituted a "genocide".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Gap said it had expected pressure from Old Navy’s seasonal assortment, but it hadn’t anticipated traffic to slow, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
She anticipated his wants, pulled out the threads on the cuffs of his shirt, and embroidered a dozen handkerchiefs with his initials for his birthday.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even so, the research provides another glimpse into changes that may occur long before Alzheimer's becomes clinically visible and underscores the value of basic research aimed at understanding and, eventually, anticipating the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Iranian officials, who had been anticipating the move, pushed back on Washington’s strategy even before Bessent began speaking Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
It saw a surge of popularity among analysts after correctly anticipating the 2008 stock-market crash.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Not only that - I got up this morning anticipating being in the audience, on your behalf, for a Farage victory speech, here in Clacton, and then doing an interview him afterwards.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Given the rising tensions in the Gulf of Tonkin, McNamara had been anticipating trouble.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing anticipate
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