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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“The application doesn’t contain future market share projections showing the combined effects of merger-related growth, diversions, and merger-influenced and other changes to market conditions that Applicants anticipate,” the agency said.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley now expect rate cuts in June and September, having previously anticipated earlier moves, after the recent U.S. jobs data.
“We anticipate closing a significant number of additional stores in fiscal 2025,” the company said in its December filing.
From Los Angeles Times
Hedge funds have gotten good at mining social media to anticipate and profit from “YOLO” trades.
The marine logistics group may take about three years instead of four years to deliver a S$198 million vessel, and its new dry dock operation could ramp up faster than anticipated.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
