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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Investors anticipate prolonged disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil chokepoint.
The prevailing message from China’s leadership in 2026 is likely to be one of macroeconomic policy continuity, he said, anticipating a modest budget prioritizing economic stabilization alongside sustained, targeted policy stimulus.
Some longtime CDC staffers had anticipated Abraham might assume the agency’s top job.
Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the U.S. failed to anticipate the political disruption that followed, with insurrections across Iran, a devastating war with Iraq, instability in the Middle East, and threats to U.S. national security.
Change came—just not the kind anyone anticipated.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
