anticipations
- plural of anticipation.
Example Sentences
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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
In 1857, Osborne wrote that he had arrived in California “full of high hopes and bright anticipations of the future” only to find his dreams “have long since perished.”
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
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
