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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January inflation was “tame and came in as expected,” the analysts say.
The nerves are evident from spikes in the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, known as Wall Street’s fear gauge because it measures the price of options that investors tend to buy when expecting stock swings.
Players continued to slide for longer than expected.
From BBC
The results suggest that Japan has weathered the blow from U.S. tariffs better than expected.
“Markets are now pricing in slightly more than two rate cuts from the Fed in 2026, with the first expected in the June-July period,” the team adds.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
