expecting

British

/ ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ /

adjective

informal pregnant

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"Sometimes I would have asked my mum after we'd ended up in hospital overnight if she could transfer me money as I wasn't expecting to be here, we were skimping to get by," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Koch described being so conditioned by weightlessness that back on Earth she had dropped a shirt expecting it to float - and was startled when it fell.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal were expecting to see 215,000 initial claims.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

B. Riley Securities analyst Craig Ellis told MarketWatch that after Nvidia released quantum models Cuda-Q and NVQLink last year, he had been expecting further developments in 2026.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

They must have come up with an explanation for why she couldn’t spin the straw into gold anymore, like expecting a baby takes away her magic powers.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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