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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What struck me from my conversation with Wilson and other executives was the way AI has altered their thinking on how to anticipate future technologies that are on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
You’d anticipate moments like that to be embellished with improv, but it’s all tightly scripted.“Of all the TV comedies I’ve worked on, this one has the most already on the page,” says DeYoung.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“As capacity eases, which we anticipate, this company will be among the first and hardest hit,” she wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Fitch expects the BOJ to wait until October and then to hike more quickly than markets anticipate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“No one expected Category Six hurricanes. They didn’t have city killers then. The climate changed. The weather shifted. They did not anticipate well.”
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
He anticipates cutting his earnings estimates after meeting China Aviation’s management on Tuesday, and is reviewing the stock’s buy rating and target price of 2.50 Singapore dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He anticipates that both will use their mobility to make plays if the pocket collapses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
For the full year, Cisco anticipates $72.2 billion to $73.4 billion of revenue, also blowing past Wall Street expectations of $69.1 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
He said he anticipates that campaigns will more fully understand and use AI to its full extent in the next two election cycles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Cuban son, however, the melody is elastic in the other direction: it anticipates the main beat.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
“It became much bigger than I anticipated, really,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Traders anticipated a 0.1% decline, according to economists at Bank of Nova Scotia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Analysts had anticipated a win for Farage but underestimated the appeal of the self-styled "intergalactic space warrior" from planet Sigma IX, who campaigns wearing a rubbish bin on his head.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
However, Werro will race against Hodgkinson in a highly anticipated final following a successful appeal, with footage showing France's Anais Bourgoin had hit Werro's right foot with her left hand.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The campaign had worn us out, maybe even more than I’d anticipated.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
After several movie announcements at San Diego Comic-Con last month, fans had been anticipating Marvel’s D23 presentation would focus on its series slate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Locals were anticipating the busiest summer in years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Overall, Miller is overweighting technology stocks in his portfolio, anticipating at least high-teens-percentage earnings growth in the next five to 10 years, but he is cognizant of risks in the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
However, that shouldn’t stop investors from anticipating a September rate hike, they said, especially given the recent surge in energy prices and concerns about the potential for AI-related demand to feed into inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I lay on my own side of the bed, reading my guidebook by flashlight and anticipating my journey.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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