Anticipation in a sentence as a noun

It has allowed me to build an Ads product and an Ads customer base in anticipation of Ads API access.

Whoever is posting these are doing it slowly and deliberately, a few days at a time, building up anticipation.

We were in acquisition talks in late 2007 which were suddenly canceled, seemingly in anticipation of the horrors to come.

Like Somerset Maugham she doesnt wait for inspiration she acts in anticipation of its apparition.

In anticipation of the comments we've gotten in the past:* We hold everyone to the same admissions standard, regardless of race or gender.

" "I have no desire to sign an NDA with you, most particularly not this NDA, which clearly has not been drafted in anticipation of our circumstances.

I'm not convinced that this is necessarily caused by people losing attention while they write the last line due to anticipation of finishing the task.

The mayor of our city, Dumaguete, set aside something like $9,000 as an emergency fund in anticipation of Yolanda.

It feels vaguely pleasant but unusual and is triggered by an emotional perception - like the anticipation of something scary.

And in a split second, anticipation turned into unsurprised disappointment.

Cleaning an apartment isn't so bad; but the anticipation and feeling of having to do it brings forward all those negative emotions like, "how the **** did I get to age and still have to do my own cleaning?

After months of anticipation, a trip to New York, and several weeks with the device, after much deliberation I decided the device wasn't ready for prime time and my $1,500 would be better spent elsewhere.

But the anticipation of work or change or even playful activity like exercise is often an anxiety-ridden negativity-fest.

The universe quivers in anticipation but then realizes 'Wait, much more interesting commerce happens in Tokyo every day.' The bankruptcy trustee then begins drafting a memo to stakeholders of the corporation on the likely amount of liquid assets which the corporation controls to satisfy claims made against it."

A few thoughts:"This kind of thought experiment — that Einstein called gedankenexperiment — is the fruit of our prefrontal lobes, humanity's most unique and recent organ, the font of our greatest gifts: curiosity, empathy, anticipation and resilience.

Anticipation definitions

noun

an expectation

See also: expectancy

noun

something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development"

See also: expectancy

noun

the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

See also: prediction prevision

noun

anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

See also: expectation