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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In my BR period, I also expected to fill my early retirement with home-improvement tasks, doing history-research projects, volunteering and learning.
“Every time he takes the ball, he expects to win and we expect to win,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times
As impressive as the 12-game winning run was, England still need that South African mentality - wherever you go in the world, you are expected to win and be globally successful.
From BBC
And the International Olympic Committee only expects that wave to keep rolling as it prepares on two fronts for Los Angeles 2028.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
