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anticipation

[an-tis-uh-pay-shuhn] / ænˌtɪs əˈpeɪ ʃən /




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The inquiry was told the Home Office, in anticipation of a multi-year spending review in June 2025, recognised that work would instead need to focus on "cost-neutral improvements" in the short term.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Instead of using binary prediction-market contracts, the ETF will invest in leaps, or long-term equity anticipation securities.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

The delays frustrated fans but also built anticipation for each absurdist plot arc, including his character’s unlikely star turn in the Broadway musical “The Producers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The researchers also tracked pacing, a repetitive behavior in carnivores that is often linked to anticipation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The anticipation of Easy Cheese creates its own miracles.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

It is always filtered through layers of worldviews, social practices, historical memories and anticipations of the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

And they do that through trying to anticipate how we might get hurt and reacting to those anticipations.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

There were bright songs about times and places, memories and anticipations, “Saturday afternoon” and “the future” — and about how the world of tomorrow might be a more just and peaceful place.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021

Only in the 20th century did readers recognize its uncanny anticipations of relativity and the big-bang theory.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

But his exhortations toward national unity were less descriptions than anticipations, less reminders of the way we were than predictions of what we could become.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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