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  1. expectingadjective

    Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Expecting

    of Expect

Wikidata

  1. Expecting

    "Expecting" is episode 12 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Howard Gordon and directed by David Semel, it was originally broadcast on January 25, 2000 on the WB network. In "Expecting", Cordelia, having spent the night with her charming date, wakes up carrying a near-term pregnancy. Research reveals she and several other women bear the spawn of a Haxil Beast that uses men as sexual surrogates. Angel and Wesley must find a way to break the demon's psychic control over its human incubators before they deliver—an ordeal likely to be lethal to the hosts.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expecting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4518

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'expecting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2650

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of expecting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of expecting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of expecting in a Sentence

  1. Ali Ibrahim Peltek:

    This is not good for Turkey but everyone was expecting a terrorist attack.

  2. Francis Stenning:

    We've been talking with (MSCI's) specialists, which has helped them understand where we're expecting the impact of these measures, it's been received well.

  3. Vincenzo Nibali:

    He did not do great but I'm expecting him to get better as the race goes on, i was good today, but on the Giro you have to be cautious because if you're not it can backfire.

  4. Hugo Vickers:

    I’ve always thought Queen Elizabeth II should be called Elizabeth the Steadfast, i think it’s a perfect way of describing Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II was n’t necessarily expecting to be queen, and Queen Elizabeth II embraced that duty. ’’ As the elder daughter of King George V’s second son, Elizabeth, now 95, was expected to live the life of a minor royal when she was born on April 21, 1926. Dogs and horses, a country house, a suitable match — a comfortable but uneventful life — seemed her future. But everything changed a decade later when King Edward VIII, King Edward VIII, abdicated so King Edward VIII could marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Elizabeth’s father became King George VI, making the young princess heir apparent. George VI, whose struggles to overcome a stutter were portrayed in the 2010 film.

  5. Spencer Little:

    That gap is closing quite quickly, and we're expecting that trend to continue to be driven by the smaller, compact SUVs, they're more versatile - families love them. Their price is lower, they're smaller than the larger SUV models but still roomy.

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