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.
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Oil prices slid in early European trade on fresh Middle East optimism, while Nasdaq futures fell as investors anticipate Nvidia’s narrative-setting earnings and U.S. inflation data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
State media in China, which controls Tibet, say there are significant casualties and Nepalese officials said they anticipate "huge scale loss".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
You’ll need to first figure out what your spending is or, for a better estimate, what you anticipate your spending will be when you retire.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Schools are starting the year with a rule that is not written into their internal regulations, except perhaps for those that tried to anticipate something, but that remains very limited."
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Things with Breanna go a lot better than I anticipate.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
Oxford Economics anticipates that manufacturers who stand to be most impacted include those in the cement, paper, printing, wood, clothing and electronics equipment sectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It anticipates $7.80 to $7.90 in earnings per share, while analysts were looking for $7.87 a share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
When asked what she expects of her time in Louisiana, she gives the same answer, again and again: She anticipates she will only be there for two years.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Last year over 350,000 people flocked to the halls of the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany to get a chance to see and play the most hotly anticipated games.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
His war with Iran unintentionally set off a scramble for renewable energy sources, which promise to be cheaper in the long run and available on a faster timescale than many initially anticipated.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Stripping out certain one-time items, adjusted per-share earnings were 37 cents, ahead of the 35 cents anticipated by analysts, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The company obtained court orders Friday requiring Microsoft and Discord to turn over data in an effort to identify the source of recent leaks surrounding the eagerly anticipated video game.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Would I have ever predicted that Charlie Ledley would have anticipated the greatest financial crisis since the Depression?” he said.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Even so, the research provides another glimpse into changes that may occur long before Alzheimer's becomes clinically visible and underscores the value of basic research aimed at understanding and, eventually, anticipating the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Not only that - I got up this morning anticipating being in the audience, on your behalf, for a Farage victory speech, here in Clacton, and then doing an interview him afterwards.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The data weighed on monetary policy expectations, with markets now anticipating no change to interest rates from the Federal Reserve at its next meeting, boosting the precious metal, the strategist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Fans have been anticipating their doubles reunion since Serena announced her return to competitive tennis in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
In Seattle, anticipating this hazard, I’d stopped at a hardware store and purchased a pair of stout aluminum curtain rods, each ten feet long.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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