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anticipatory

/an-tis-uh-puh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ænˈtɪs ə pəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //

预测性的,预见性的,预测性,预见性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, showing, or expressing anticipation.

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Examples

  • People are making big anticipatory plans, and this trend will only continue as more and more people get access to the vaccine and states continue to open up.

  • During the lead-up to the appointment, you may experience what Bidwell Smith calls “anticipatory grief.”

  • So when they are deciding whom to support, party chairs, delegates, donors and elected officials make speculative, anticipatory judgments about how candidates will perform in the general election.

  • An anticipatory hush settled over the Columbia auditorium, bulbs flashing and cameras clicking.

  • After weeks of anticipatory gloom, liberals can exhale and smile.

  • I suffered years of anticipatory grief, mostly in isolation.

  • The future is quite enough hampered with the past, without setting anticipatory traps and springes for unwary feet.

  • Yet I should be overdoing this (purely anticipatory) prudence to pass over the episode of the sky-blue uniform entirely.

  • They had discarded their shields, but were handling assegais in a manner that was highly anticipatory.

  • He was evidently bursting with the anticipatory pride of telling me something very much to his credit.

  • For it is at most anticipatory elements of the idea of humanity that are embodied in the world empire.