expect
Usage
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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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“Consistent with our historical approach, we expect to finance the majority of the remaining CapEx needed to deliver our backlog through delayed draw term loans matched to specific customer contracts,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
And they expect Gavin Stone, who last pitched in the majors in 2024, to be part of the equation, after a long road back from shoulder surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
"That pool is something that she is passionate about, and rightfully so, because nobody would expect an MP not to be," Shah said.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Even with unusually large seasonal ozone holes such as the one observed in 2026, scientists expect the Antarctic ozone hole to recover by the 2070s.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Well what did he expect, if he wouldn’t let his pack-brother wake him up?
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Zuckerberg said on the earnings call that Meta expects to improve Muse’s cost efficiency by more than 10 times in the next year, which he said could enable it to become profitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Speaking by phone from her home in New York City, the 41-year-old actor laughs as she resigns herself to probably voting at “prime time,” when she expects the lines to be longest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Mericle expects the further tightening in March may be outlined in the Fed’s dot plot — its projected rate chart — next month.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Luzzetti said he now expects the Fed to raise rates by a quarter point at each of its next three meetings, delivering a total of 1 percentage point of increases, including September’s rate increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
I know I need to clarify that I could only help sometimes, and not the way I’m pretty sure he expects me to, but I couldn’t disappoint him.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The comedian and actor was born April 4, 1964, in Lynchburg, Va., and raised in Gladys, where he joked he was expected to become a trucker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
GSK is expected to have the slowest earnings-per-share growth in the sector over the 2027-2030 period, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Milburn, a Labour MP from 1992 to 2010, is also expected to recommend an investment of billions into more employment support for young people, including work placements, job subsidies and one-to-one personal advisers.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Another long-term catalyst for Oracle, Moerdler believes, is that the company is expected to generate positive free cash flow by the second half of its next fiscal year, which ends in May 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
I personally thought things were going better than expected.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Free cash flow refers to the money a company has left after it covers operating costs and equipment purchases, and analysts tracked by FactSet had been expecting negative free cash flow over the corresponding period.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
The widening gap between the 2-year rate and the Fed’s policy rate is one way bond investors are signaling to the central bank that they are expecting more aggressive rate hikes ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
But that duty, and how it should be applied in the real world, is also why Walliams lost: he was expecting the wrong public body to be doing the protecting.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Analysts are expecting third-quarter earnings of $1.50 a share on $3.42 billion in revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The secretary, Miss Lester, seemed to be expecting me; she immediately ticked her head toward Miss Buckner’s office.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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