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anticipatory

adjective as in expectant

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For those feeling unsatisfied with their current lives, anticipatory nostalgia can decrease anxiety while enhancing the meaningfulness of the moment.

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A moment of anticipatory transition is frozen, made perpetual.

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The mainstream news media as an institution appears to have chosen a strategy of anticipatory obedience and compliance, if not collaboration, in normalizing Trumpism and his attempts to become the country’s first elected dictator.

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“TUPELO!” the crowd bellows back in anticipatory response.

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As has been seen in other countries whose democracies have collapsed to authoritarianism and fascism, such anticipatory obedience and other acts of surrender and supplication will, at best, offer only temporary and illusory safety.

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

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