expecting
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In early January, they travelled from their home in Washington, DC to Tehran to visit family - expecting a short, routine trip.
From BBC
The home support will be expecting three points - but if Forest falter the pressure on Dyche will intensify.
From BBC
IRS computers might be expecting the numbers received from the tax forms of certain prediction-market platforms to match up with taxpayer returns.
From MarketWatch
With regard to a Hemingway purloining on “Love and Theft”: “Dylan implants only part of the original sentence, while presumably expecting us to cough up the whole.”
Analysts polled by The Wall Street Journal were expecting a gloomier reading of 55 this month.
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