hope
Usage
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To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. 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? 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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“We obviously hope for every co-investment to get this large,” Scott Wilson, WashU’s endowment chief, wrote in an email, “but few businesses compound at this rate for such a long period of time.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
“Ultimately, the audience has to believe that at a surface level it can be deemed a normal conversation. There’s many ways to skin it. You always hope it lands in a real way.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
They must hope world champions Spain drop points against Iceland on Tuesday to avoid going into the play-offs, which will be played this autumn.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
But instead of ending capital punishment in the United States, the Furman decision set off a scramble in which states reenacted their death penalty laws in the hope of curing the problem Justice Douglas identified.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
His only hope was that her impending wrath would not last long.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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