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  1. expectingadjective

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

Webster Dictionary

  1. Expecting

    of Expect

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  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.

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  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. Chief Pete Arredondo:

    We’re going to get scrutinized, I ’m expecting that. We’re getting scrutinized for why we did n’t go in there, i know what the firepower [ the shooter ] had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in Situation Room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that were n’t in the immediate threat besides the ones I know were in the immediate threat and the preservation of life around, everything around him, I felt was priority.

  2. Kaleen Lugo:

    I was going into it expecting to tell them all the reasons why they should be practicing yoga and why it’s so beneficial, they’re just like, ‘You’re preaching to the choir, girl. We know.’.

  3. Bryan Smith:

    This time around, it’s pretty hard to pinpoint any kind of turnout … but we are expecting a very high turnout.

  4. Geoffrey Driscoll:

    In some areas of the province we are expecting some showers, however it's not going to be enough to counteract the weeks and weeks of dry weather we have had.

  5. Michael McCarthy:

    The trade concerns have bitten today and the reason is that this is above and beyond what the market was expecting, although there is a long deadline on this, if these tariffs are introduced there will be an impact on global growth and demand.

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    (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    A jejune
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