Synonym: expectancy, expectation, prediction, prevision. Similar words: participation, anticipate, emancipation, participate, participant, dissipation, constipation, antipathy. Meaning: [æn‚tɪsɪ'peɪʃn] n. 1. pleasurable expectation 2. something expected (as on the basis of a norm) 3. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) 4. wishing with confidence of fulfillment.
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121. You will use your powers of anticipation and imagination to read between the lines, to understand message and meaning.
122. My baby-blue portable Smith-Corona typewriter has been a gift from my parents a year before, in anticipation of my attending college.
123. In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans.
124. The noise, which had been post-prandial in its intensity, rose in anticipation.
125. Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine.
126. Still, half the fun of this run is the anticipation.
127. The Chalice Quilt was made by slaves on a Texas plantation in 1860 in anticipation of a visit from an itinerant bishop.
128. There has been a rapid and spontaneous growth of ideas and an anticipation of things to come.
129. Also to early Christians the story may have been seen as an anticipation of the Last Supper.
130. It made me shiver with a mixture of awe and anticipation.
131. Companies find it cheaper to lay extra strands in anticipation of future business.
132. On this heady diet we move from intoxicating anticipation to deep despair.
133. However, it now plans to draw in its horns in anticipation of declining demand for farm machinery by cutting back production.
134. Shuddering with fear and anticipation at the prospect of the weekend ahead, she risked opening her eyes again.
135. Battle is joined and lawyers are rubbing their hands in anticipation.
136. Yanto, full of excited anticipation, had raced around to Bert's garage as soon as work finished on Friday.
137. With the premature end of apprenticeship came abolitionist anticipation of a new era of orderly progress in liberty.
138. Such payments would come within para 10 of the Statement as compensation for loss of office rather than in anticipation of retirement.
139. The house gives the impression of having been abandoned suddenly,(http://sentencedict.com/anticipation.html) in anticipation of some great disaster.
140. The king extended the period of the trial in anticipation of objections from the Harrisons' enemies.
141. The anticipation of future employment by women may bring births forward.
142. Then a bomb blast devastated the theatre and wiped away her smile of anticipation.
143. Belinda waited in growing anticipation, then as the carousel began to move she squealed with excitement and began laughing loudly.
144. Discussing how to do this and preparing plans for alternative comforting will help her gain confidence and anticipation of the problems.
145. A week of anticipation and preparation for the dinner engagement was now marred by ugly weather.
146. Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring: The anticipation of maintenance problems is significant in terms of aircraft airworthiness and economic considerations.
147. With eager anticipation, though her clear golden-brown eyes held a hint of sadness, Luce Weston descended the steps.
148. She lived in miserable anticipation of the day when Camille fell in love with some nightmare youth.
149. The locals, apparently, looked with gleeful anticipation to the coming of city folks with fat wallets.
150. Christina was struck by the contrast between Colette's delighted anticipation and her own bewilderment and apprehension all those years ago.
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