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anticipation, contemplation, expectance, expectation, prospect
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Jan Oblak is one name that has been linked with United for the last few years already in the expectancy that De Gea will one day move on. — SI.com, "Jan Oblak Looking to Leave Atletico Madrid After 'Broken Promises' & Favours Man Utd Transfer," 10 June 2019 The Dodgers at that point had a less than zero percent chance of victory based on win expectancy calculations. — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, "With just one trade deadline, baseball GMs are under the gun," 6 July 2019 The United States has actually narrowed its life-expectancy gap with Sweden and Norway in the interim. — William A. Estes, National Review, "The American Medical Association Flirts with Socialized Medicine," 28 June 2019 By 1993, a peak year for violent crime, the life-expectancy gap between black and white men had widened again by nearly three years, to 8.5 years. — The Economist, "Black men in America are living almost as long as white men," 14 June 2019 Those triggers typically fall into one of four camps: expectancy, value, time or impulsivity, says Alexander Rozental, a procrastination researcher and a clinical neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. — Jamie Ducharme, Time, "Psychologists Explain Why You Procrastinate — And How to Stop," 29 June 2018 But on this night, in the main swimming area at Splash Country, Aurora’s water facility on the far West Side, the fun had more structure and there was more expectancy in the air. — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, "New program in Aurora gives swim lessons to kids from low-income families," 8 June 2018 Chelsea wouldn't be expecting to get much more than £20m for the Brazilian, and the expectancy is that Napoli would expect to pay under £15m for his services. — SI.com, "Napoli Offer Chelsea a Way Out of Paying Maurizio Sarri's £7m Buyout Fee," 23 May 2018 Those things carry lifelong expectancies outside of football. — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, "Quarterback University molding future college QBs in Detroit, nationally," 5 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'expectancy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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