anticipation
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The inquiry was told the Home Office, in anticipation of a multi-year spending review in June 2025, recognised that work would instead need to focus on "cost-neutral improvements" in the short term.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Instead of using binary prediction-market contracts, the ETF will invest in leaps, or long-term equity anticipation securities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
That is a lot to live up to—but his anticipation has been building for nearly a decade since he paid a $250,000 deposit to get in line to buy one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The researchers also tracked pacing, a repetitive behavior in carnivores that is often linked to anticipation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Silently the others waited, their eyes glinting in evil anticipation.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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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