anticipation
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The states pointed to the changes they would have to make now in anticipation of a possible final rule.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
WorldCom, Global Crossing and Qwest spent billions laying fiber-optic cable, building long-haul networks and expanding data-center capacity in anticipation of this demand.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
In anticipation of that happening, people are gonna have to make some very hard choices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The company guided that orders for August and September remain soft as buyers delay purchases in anticipation of further selling price declines, she notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Both the Union and Confederate governments stockpiled rifles and cannons in anticipation of conflict.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
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