expect
Usage
What are other ways to say expect?
The verb expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? Hope implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. Await (wait for) implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.
Example Sentences
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But beginning next fiscal year, some of the richest schools expect to pay hundreds of millions of dollars annually in additional taxes on endowment income.
Carrie Braun, public affairs director at the Sheriff’s Department, said that as of Saturday evening, the suspect hadn’t completed the booking process and that his name is expected to be released Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times
SpaceX has three more launches scheduled from Vandenberg this month, the next expected to take place Wednesday, according to the company’s site.
From Los Angeles Times
Jokic expected some difference in approaches between US and European players.
From Barron's
Several forecasters expect little progress this year as tariff-related price increases work their way from ports to store shelves.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
