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half-expect

verb

Etymology

From half- + expect.

  1. borrowed from expectāre
  2. prefixed as half-expect — “half + expect”

Definitions

  1. Almost to expect

    Almost to expect; to think that something may happen, without being entirely sure.

    • - I'm afraid we have no appointments available until next week. - Oh, that's all right; I half-expected that.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for half-expect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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