Anticipator used in a sentence

Anticipator in a sentence as a noun

"Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory: theyre going to come off as more natural, more interesting, and above all, more valuable." I think that's not true at all.

Mechanical thermostats have something called an "anticipator" which slightly warms the sensing element as the furnace runs, so it tends to turn off below the set point. This is to avoid overshoot.

Admittedly I slipped an "always" in there when I shouldn't have; I agree that anticipatory talks can be great, too. Let's put it this way, though: for a beginning or first-time speaker, I'll maintain that talks should be reactionary.

This is scary because the more you know about human perception, the more you realize that this kind of anticipatory system can be applied to all kinds of human decision making. This is the beginning.

"Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory: theyre going to come off as more natural, more interesting, and above all, more valuable." I agree with the sentiment here.

We were given a 100-question booklet of Civics 101 and a lot of anticipatory anxiety. So, imagine my surprise when the interview came around and with it, the storied, fabled English proficiency test.

Discovering that the wall desperately needed repair anyway doesn't make punching it, out of anticipatory grief, good.

The overblown Raid was likely part of the script - or it happened out of anticipatory obedience. Try to see the positive in it; old money in the media mafia is literally kicking and screaming by now.

Great post, especially the concept 'Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory'. A public speaking ancedote for all those that are nervous at public speaking or currently aren't that good at it.

With a 20-year maximum sentence, anticipatory obstruction is a mighty powerful lever.

I think for me personally it is a highly anticipatory, self-protective mode. I am constantly assessing and "war gaming" where scenarios/situations might veer.

Come on now, this adds nothing to the discussion and yet this is basically the entirety of the argument against anticipatory structural code.

The very nature of the problem of securing one's privacy demands the type of anticipatory thinking I describe. Skepticism that johnnybgood is advocating is a losing strategy from the start.

"anticipatory shipping", this is pretty much just saying that local warehouses/stores should anticipate demand by using as much data as possible. For Amazon that means wishlists, viewing history, shopping carts, emails etc.

The processes that bring you the things you use and interact with every day are already getting smarter and more connected, but I doubt most people will have an intelligent anticipatory device strapped to them for quite some time. Humans have to first psychologically adapt to a world where you don't need to stand in check-in lines at an airport terminal.

Now, you adhere to that policy, perhaps with some activity record around the procedure itself, and your argument is something like, "it is not obstruction and not anticipatory obstruction because we defined and abided by the policy before anything happened, before any event warranting an investigation could occur, and, therefor, before contemplation of an investigation could occur."