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expected

adjective as in wonted

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This year's free agency class is light on superstar names after Anthony Davis, who is expected to re-sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, but a number of high-profile players are reportedly interested in being traded.

His recovery is on track, and he is expected to start throwing in December.

If there is no reconciliation, this free agency and trade period could be wilder than expected.

If the NHL does start in early January, it is expected that players from the AHL would be available for teams during that gap period, if needed.

Runners will be expected to cover their faces at the start of the race and whenever they’re grouped with other runners on the course.

Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.

He is expected to spend the next few days closeted with lawyers and advisers at his home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.

In all fairness to Jay, he told The Intercept that he never expected to be a major figure in Serial.

Frankly, I don't think even Michael Patrick King, Lisa Kudrow, and the show's biggest fans expected it to be this good.

He expected European capitalism to evolve spontaneously into a market socialism of worker-owned cooperatives.

Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

It is only just to say, that the officers exhibited a degree of courage far beyond any thing we had expected from them.

Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.

Instead of the expected general amnesty, only a few special pardons were granted.

All night long they expected to hear the roar of the pursuing guns, to find the sabers of the Dragoons flashing over their heads.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expected, such as: normal, conventional, familiar, and habitual.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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