anticipate
Usage
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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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AI token prices have been dropping but are set to plunge faster than most anticipate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Ortiz family didn’t initially anticipate trouble in getting an immigrant visa for Ortiz Jara, a first step toward eventual citizenship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
With a successful domestic industry facing competition from abroad, you might anticipate calls for the government to provide financial support.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Christine Idzelis compared this year’s jump in yields with previous periods of bond-market turmoil and considered whether bond investors are overshooting the mark as they anticipate further interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
He threw out a low kick, just slow enough for her to anticipate, and without any force behind it.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Gawrelski anticipates a near-term hit to Meta’s earnings due to litigation costs and a ramp-up of infrastructure spending to support Muse’s product trajectory.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
GEO Group said it anticipates receiving $705 million in proceeds from the sales, after taxes and transaction fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
It anticipates another 25bp increase from the Fed and the ECB before year-end, while the Bank of Japan is expected to continue its gradual normalization process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
He anticipates intense interest in artificial intelligence and the infrastructure behind it, particularly data centers.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
Jay, taut and grim-faced, anticipates when to loosen or tighten the rope.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
In a highly anticipated pitching matchup, the Dodgers drive Jacob Misiorowski out of the game early, but the Brewers touch up Tarik Skubal and get the 2-1 victory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Everyone was hoping... this would be a game changer. And we continue to believe that it absolutely has the potential," although corporate engagement had been "slower" than anticipated, said Schomaker.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
I keep thinking about the spaceship in Pixar’s “WALL-E,” the Axiom, where every human need has been anticipated and met.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The company is also running a Phase 3 trial for retatrutide, a highly anticipated weight-loss drug that’s in development, as a treatment for chronic low back pain.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Jim Don anticipated the pass and intercepted it on the run.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Natural gas futures settled up 1% to $3.066 per mmBtu for the day, with analysts anticipating that this week’s EIA storage report will show smaller-than-usual builds in natural gas storage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The World Bank warned that Nepal needs to build a hydropower system capable of anticipating, absorbing and recovering from increasingly complex Himalayan hazards.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
That includes more project-based learning and teaching time management strategies such as “navigating competing priorities, assessing workload, anticipating expectations, and adapting to personal and academic circumstances.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"I have been quite explicit to say there is unlikely to be a legacy because I'm anticipating spending it all."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
She had become unmoored from the present, loose and untethered, her mind rolling back into her memories, rolling forward into the future, anticipating, and then dropping again into this torturous, unbearable present.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Vocabulary lists containing anticipate
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