Example Sentences

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As the perfect planner, the anticipator of all scenarios, I would be ready to deal with this when asked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2016

Mosteller’s official title is director of Oval Office operations, although a more apt name might be anticipator in chief.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2016

Here we would seem to have a clear conception of the idea of universal gravitation, and Anaxagoras stands before us as the anticipator of Newton.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

Richard Trevethick, the anticipator of many things, also took out a patent in 1815, and in it he describes the screw propeller with considerable minuteness.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel

The withered and the aged mistake their failing forces for calmness and resignation, and an apathy, the drear anticipator of death, for presence of mind.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick