anticipate
Usage
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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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"Piracy… is taking up a larger and larger share of the revenues that they would anticipate being able to generate through their subscription models. So yes, it is a worry for them."
From BBC β Oct. 18, 2026
They also offer astronomers a more reliable way to anticipate one of the universe's most dramatic phenomena: the moment a black hole begins launching a powerful jet into space.
From Science Daily β Oct. 16, 2026
October has also been an ugly month for the sector but this time around, JPMorgan’s global strategy team does not anticipate a recovery anywhere near as speedy and emphatic.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 15, 2026
This makes it significantly harder to interrupt the propagation of an AI-driven computer worm, because you have to anticipate all the possible vulnerabilities the devices might present.
From Barron's β Oct. 13, 2026
And if there is a reasonable chance that readers will misinterpret a statistical tendency as an absolute law, a responsible writer will anticipate the oversight and qualify the generalization accordingly.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
It added it anticipates that demand to remain strong in the fourth quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 16, 2026
Gawrelski anticipates a near-term hit to Meta’s earnings due to litigation costs and a ramp-up of infrastructure spending to support Muse’s product trajectory.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 6, 2026
GEO Group said it anticipates receiving $705 million in proceeds from the sales, after taxes and transaction fees.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 5, 2026
He anticipates intense interest in artificial intelligence and the infrastructure behind it, particularly data centers.
From Salon β Sep. 22, 2026
Jay, taut and grim-faced, anticipates when to loosen or tighten the rope.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The problem was less severe than engineers had anticipated, making it relatively straightforward to correct.
From Science Daily β Oct. 17, 2026
However, what encourages Kirsch most of all is that the broadening of market performance that he called for is now unfolding and more forcefully than he anticipated.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 16, 2026
Instead, some of the cells were 25 to 30 percent smaller than anticipated.
From Science Daily β Oct. 15, 2026
Container freight rates are surging on strong cargo volumes ahead of anticipated changes to U.S.-China tariffs and supply disruptions caused by typhoons in China, the analyst writes in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 14, 2026
He discovered it was ten times as high as it was in the open air: apparently the metal body, reflecting the radioactivity inward from six directions, concentrated the rays more than anyone had anticipated.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. OβBrien
O'Neill believes Hearts are genuine contenders again and is anticipating a match that will be as challenging as May's dramatic title decider.
From BBC β Oct. 17, 2026
Instead, the brain may continue analyzing patterns, responding to unexpected events, and anticipating language even when a person has no conscious awareness of the surrounding world.
From Science Daily β Oct. 15, 2026
“We need to keep an eye on sentiment and the other dynamics that are happening there, but we’re not anticipating a lot of shift in behavior.”
From MarketWatch β Oct. 14, 2026
"That marks a dramatic shift in expectations from before the US-Iran war at the start of the year, when markets were anticipating at least 100 basis points of rate cuts over the same period."
From Barron's β Oct. 2, 2026
The sensation of skin on skin set off a riot of revulsion in Kaz’s head, but because he’d been anticipating the attack, he managed to control the sickness that overcame him.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing anticipate
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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