anticipation

She had slept terribly the night before, in anticipation.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The U.S. dollar rose sharply in anticipation of a hawkish statement from the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Sociologist Allison Daminger has studied this invisible dimension of household work: the planning, anticipation, decision-making and monitoring that continue even when someone else is performing the physical task.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

"The universities have taken students on in the anticipation that they will receive funding from the department," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

And a few minutes after that, Hudson sent a GIF of Stewie Griffin bouncing around in anticipation.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

It is always filtered through layers of worldviews, social practices, historical memories and anticipations of the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

And they do that through trying to anticipate how we might get hurt and reacting to those anticipations.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

There were bright songs about times and places, memories and anticipations, “Saturday afternoon” and “the future” — and about how the world of tomorrow might be a more just and peaceful place.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021

In 1857, Osborne wrote that he had arrived in California “full of high hopes and bright anticipations of the future” only to find his dreams “have long since perished.”

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

But his exhortations toward national unity were less descriptions than anticipations, less reminders of the way we were than predictions of what we could become.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis