Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective prenominal same as
anticipated , 2.
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Examples
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Beginning perhaps with how she was so far enjoying the Season, and -- because her looked-for departure must depend upon the question!
Gatlinburg 2010
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Meanwhile, the much looked-for help the federal government has offered will be available only to those Americans whose governors aren't trying to score political points.
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The anxiously looked-for period was at length arrived, which had unveiled the mystery of her birth.
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A looked-for delight which cannot elude the grasp possesses an immense charm for youth; perhaps in their eyes the secret of the attraction of a house of pleasure lies in the certainty of gratification; perhaps many a long fidelity is attributable to the same cause.
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Without this storm the balloon would have started already and the looked-for opportunity would not have then presented itself.
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The telescope, after having slowly swept the horizon, at last stopped on the looked-for spot, and Cyrus Harding, lowering it, pronounced one word only, — “A vessel!”
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Without this storm the balloon would have started already and the looked-for opportunity would not have then presented itself.
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The telescope, after having slowly swept the horizon, at last stopped on the looked-for spot, and Cyrus Harding, lowering it, pronounced one word only, — “A vessel!”
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The chance was not vouchsafed her; the looked-for juncture never came: it was not likely.
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Striking north-west, after leaving our camp, and descending the slope of a mountain, we soon beheld the anxiously looked-for Malagarazi, a narrow but deep stream, flowing through a valley pent in by lofty mountains.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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