anticipatory

• It was all joyous and anticipatory, as though Christmas and Thanksgiving both had arrived in June When Ally got up the next morning, though, she also knew that Carl had been transferred to Rio and not asked Melinda to go with him. —  FSFMagazine,May2007
• What he turned on her now was a look of mild surprise, almost of pleasure; but there was a curl to the lips that would have betrayed, had she not already been able to feel it, the suspicion and annoyance he felt, tinged with both apprehension and a peculiar kind of anticipatory pleasure. —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
• I thought the video was pretty dumb at first, but I did like the 'anticipatory' shots of Keyboard Cat, and I think there are several funny comments above addressing this. ouch, wow, you really got me there. —  FriendFeed
• The Amazing Race give you the same kind of anticipatory tinglies before their season premieres? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• This is because the government and the Fed are reactive rather than anticipatory, as their conduct throughout the credit bubble and its aftermath have demonstrated beyond doubt. —  Safehaven

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