to anticipate
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5.8
- verb
- /ænˈtɪsɪˌpeɪt/
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prefigurar
- We have seen how futurist practice often anticipated the political action of fascism.
- a novel anticipates
Each decision anticipates or conjures the next in an agile, incomplete syntax.
- Each decision anticipates or conjures the next in an agile, incomplete syntax.
- Then he goes on and he brings up another interesting idea, which in a certain way anticipates the often quoted Occam's razor, right?
- So there's only one way my intuition can anticipate the actuality of the object and be a cognition A priori.
Examples
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The forecast anticipates a significant increase in temperatures by next week.
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And she, because she was a sensitive driver, anticipated, oh, boy, this is going to cause some conflict and friction between the product team and the technical team.
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And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be.
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You know, it's amazing how your father anticipated the pump fake like that.
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His observations on Christian unity, in some respects, anticipate the directions of the Second Vatican Council.
Academic text (1990) -
Almost none of the invasion coverage... ...anticipated this post-war chaos.
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But if we face multiple or persistent stresses day after day, the HPA axis starts to adapt, anticipating future stressful events.
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His polemic provoked a debate and anticipated Napoleon's promulgation of the civil code in 1804.
Academic text (2015) -
The new policy anticipates changes in the market and adjusts accordingly.
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Research suggests that early intervention can anticipate potential learning difficulties in children.
Synonyms
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7.0
To say what will happen in the future
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6.2
To give a small sign that something will happen in the future
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8.4
To show that something, often bad, will probably happen
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8.8
To show that something bad will happen
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8.0
To be a sign that something will happen later
To show that something will happen soon
To know something before it happens
To seem to show that something bad will happen
Predict an event from a sign or dream
To say what will happen in the future because someone has spiritual power
Antonyms
How Predictive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anticipate comes from the Latin parts ante- 'before' and capere 'to take', originally meaning 'to take beforehand'. Because of that 'before' idea, anticipate can also mean to come before or foreshadow something, so an early work can 'anticipate' later developments.