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  • adjective Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of expect.

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  • adjective considered likely or probable to happen or arrive

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Examples

  • Mrs. Uhler knew that her husband expected of her a degree of personal attention to household matters that she considered degrading to her condition as a wife; and, because he _expected_ this, she, in order to maintain the dignity of her position, gave even less attention to these matters than would otherwise have been the case.

    Home Lights and Shadows 1847

  • Anatomy of a Song When the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" became Motown's first No. 1 pop hit 50 years ago next month, no one at the label expected they would be the group to do it.

    Is There a Letter in Your Bag For Me? Marc Myers 2011

  • This year, the name expected to spark much conversation is Netflix Inc., the online and by-mail movie and TV-show rental business that media companies are grappling with.

    Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011

  • This year, the name expected to spark much conversation is Netflix Inc., the online and by-mail movie and TV-show rental business that media companies are grappling with.

    Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011

  • The album contained two minor country music hits, and his label expected the follow-up album to be his "breakthrough."

    '1994' CD Given New Life 2010

  • It could've been bigger, but I guess it wasn't the instant hit her label expected it to be.

    unknown title 2009

  • Its ratings of securities are based on what it calls "expected recovery" rates.

    ECB's Default Position on Breaking a Tie Brian Blackstone 2011

  • Part of that was due to what it called an expected increased level of activity in 2011 by far-right militants.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The Lockheed memo also took aim at what it called an expected "red herring" conclusion of the Pentagon report.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The Lockheed memo also took aim at what it called an expected "red herring" conclusion of the Pentagon report.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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