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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Complicating the state’s budget process is an anticipated shortfall in the coming year.
From Los Angeles Times
However, on Friday, having previously suggested United could make at least one signing this month, Amorim said he was not anticipating new arrivals.
From BBC
But it does mean the supply-demand math points in a direction that decades of consolidation didn’t anticipate.
From MarketWatch
When I worked at Manhattan restaurants like Babbo, Carbone and the Grill—still some of the city’s toughest reservations to get—I understood I was responsible for anticipating guests’ needs.
Not every therapist approached the desire for weight loss as a psychological problem, but enough patients encountered this corrective tone that they began to anticipate judgment.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
