anticipation
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The crowd at Crypto.com Arena buzzed in anticipation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Some 20 percent more members of the security forces will be deployed this weekend after heavy criticism of the anticipation and intelligence gathering of police last week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
In fact, I took extra precautions in anticipation of having robot cleaners in my apartment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Both of Smith's catches off Lyon, first to dismiss Temba Bavuma and then Kyle Verreynne, were feats of anticipation.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
As it swings open the photographer holds his breath in anticipation.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
Only in the 20th century did readers recognize its uncanny anticipations of relativity and the big-bang theory.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021
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
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