anticipated
IPA: æntˈɪsʌpeɪtʌd
adjective
- expected to arrive; scheduled
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Examples of "anticipated" in Sentences
- * The amount of funding currently "anticipated" is at most $2.617 billion
- Some research areas can be anticipated from the beginning of the project; other subjects crop up unexpectedly.
- The Israeli government has sealed off parts of the West Bank to prevent what it called anticipated Palestinian protests.
- The Obama Plan for economic recovery, so widely anticipated, is already here it seems — or at least as much of it as there is going to be.
- D.C. officials say they'll likely be getting less revenue than anticipated from the five-cent plastic bag tax that went into effect in January.
- Brazil, in his A Grammar of Speech (1995), points out that “to forms refer to events that are anticipated from the time reference point of another verb” and adds that this means “they always leave open the possibility that, when that time comes, the event will not actually take place”.
- The declaration or establishment of a blockade is prohibited if: (a) it has the sole purpose of starving the civilian population or denying it other objects essential for its survival; or (b) the damage to the civilian population is, or may be expected to be, excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the blockade.
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