anticipate
verb (used with object)
to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee.
will have anticipated
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future perfectof anticipate.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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But at some point the stock market will have anticipated the worst and begin to move higher, even in the face of recession-like conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is impossible to know precisely what problems George W. Bush or Al Gore will face as President, but there surely will be some that nobody will have anticipated.
From Time Magazine Archive
My opinion of this scheme of the alphabet the reader will have anticipated.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Those who live in Port Richmond will have anticipated his name, and will perceive at once that we refer to the Hon. Ogden Edwards.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
On its slopes I struck a vein of iron, another of those scientific discoveries, no doubt, like the flint implements, in which someone else will have anticipated me.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas
