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
Many scholars, including economists who should know better, regard Mandeville as a pioneer expounder of laissez-faire individualism in the economic field and as such as an anticipator of Adam Smith.
From A Letter to Dion by Jacob Viner
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
But meanwhile Cimarosa had been completely distanced by Mozart, who, himself a great inventor, and, so to say, anticipator, adopted moreover everything that was worth adopting in the methods of all his contemporaries and predecessors.
From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Henry Sutherland Edwards
