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Words For "in anticipation of something"

As you've probably noticed, words for "in anticipation of something" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "in anticipation of something" are: on pins and needles, anticipatory, foretaste, prolepsis, and against. There are 995 other words that are related to or similar to in anticipation of something listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "in anticipation of something" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

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I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

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