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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. Dennis Wholey:

    Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  2. John Rankin:

    We were just expecting to go to jail we weren't expecting to get beat up.

  3. Theodore Rubin:

    The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  4. Katharine Hepburn:

    Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

  5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    Love is giving from the heart without expecting any return. Love is sharing the beauty of life without expecting any charm or joy. Love is caring with kindness without knowing caring is the joy.

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