anticipate
verb (used with object)
to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee.
anticipator
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a word derived from
anticipate.
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
So he meditated the 'Comédie humaine' for several years before he announced it in 1842, and from being almost the rival of Saint-Hilaire he became almost the anticipator of Darwin.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 Frederick Marryat
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 Samuel Smiles
