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.
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Rather than passively receiving information, the brain continually uses patterns and previous experience to anticipate what might happen next.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Climate change is moving the baseline itself; catching up with the previous disaster is no longer enough. We need to anticipate the next one," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
This makes it significantly harder to interrupt the propagation of an AI-driven computer worm, because you have to anticipate all the possible vulnerabilities the devices might present.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Analyst Chris Savage doesn’t necessarily anticipate any sort of material beat or upgrade to guidance, although he does point out that the dual-listed company has a track record of lifting its outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Matty knew Forest so well that he could anticipate changes that came with the seasons.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
By 2027, Goldman anticipates core PCE falling closely towards the Fed’s 2% target, chiefly because tariffs and the Iran energy shock are fading in potency.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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
He anticipates intense interest in artificial intelligence and the infrastructure behind it, particularly data centers.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
The university said it "anticipates the majority of classes will run as normal" from Monday and that it would seek to minimise the impact of strike action on students.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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
Instead, some of the cells were 25 to 30 percent smaller than anticipated.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Stripping out the one-time items, J&J’s adjusted per-share earnings were $2.59, ahead of the $2.52 anticipated by analysts, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Anthropic researchers continue to publicize new safety risks posed by artificial-intelligence models ahead of the company’s highly anticipated IPO.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Known internally as “Watermelon” before the official announcement, the model launch was highly anticipated by Wall Street and industry experts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Had they anticipated such a large, lateral blast, the roadblock never would’ve been set up the same way.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Even when a person is fully unconscious under general anesthesia, their brain may still be doing something remarkable: processing language, recognizing patterns, and even anticipating which words will come next.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Instead, the brain may continue analyzing patterns, responding to unexpected events, and anticipating language even when a person has no conscious awareness of the surrounding world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
“We need to keep an eye on sentiment and the other dynamics that are happening there, but we’re not anticipating a lot of shift in behavior.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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
Clancy, maybe anticipating another hard shove, moved to the other side of his desk.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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