protention

Because assuming that a compound is found that works and it survives the clinical trial process and is approved by the FDA, the drug companies are left with just a few years of patent protention to make back their money and feed the research cycle again.

shot in the arm, shot in the butt 2009

Rather, consciousness retains the sense of the first note as I hear the second note, a hearing that is also enriched by an anticipation (protention) of the next note (or at least, in case I do not know the melody, of the fact that there will be a next note, or some next auditory event).

Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006

The living present is thick because it includes phases other than the now, in particular, what Husserl calls “protention,” the anticipation (or

Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006