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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Britain's roads, railways and airports are set to be thronged by festive travellers on what is is anticipated to be the busiest day for Christmas trips.
From BBC
TOKYO—Japan’s consumer inflation remained well above the central bank’s 2% target in November, providing further justification for a widely anticipated interest-rate hike later on Friday.
Japan’s consumer inflation remained well above the central bank’s 2% target in November, providing further justification for a widely anticipated interest-rate hike later on Friday.
She said a good price for her potatoes would be £200 a tonne, but she was anticipating prices as low as £80 in December.
From BBC
Analysts anticipate Carnival’s earnings per share to be 24 cents on sales of $6.4 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
