expectant
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“I’m not a father yet, but to me, the closest thing to being an expectant father was like, ‘Oh, my TV partner has a baby on the way!’”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Trump administration launched the website moms.gov, presenting it as an effort to provide resources for new and expectant mothers.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Kimmel had told a joke last week about how Melania Trump had “a glow like an expectant widow.”
From Slate • May 2, 2026
On his April 23 show, Kimmel presented a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech where he joked that the first lady had “a glow like an expectant widow.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
He sat in his chair—still, but not at rest: expectant evidently; the lines of now habitual sadness marking his strong features.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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