How to use expectation in a sentence. High expectations can motivate us—or set us up for disappointment From careers to finances, learn why managing expectations is key to happiness and success. She could never measure up to her mother's expectations The company's results are in line with stock market expectations The success of our campaign has exceeded our expectations
To have every expectation of something is to feel very sure that it will happen We're living in a time of diminished/rising expectations. Your expectations are your strong hopes or beliefs that something will happen Students' expectations were as varied as their expertise. The good news is that we don’t need to banish them from our psychological world, but we do need to learn to distinguish between realistic and unrealistic expectations. [countable, usually plural] a strong belief about the way something should happen or how somebody should behave unfortunately the new software has failed to meet expectations
Let go of expectations and find something to be grateful about, even when things do not turn out the way you hoped, and you will experience serenity rather than resentment. Anticipations, expectancies, expectances, prospects, contemplations, alarms, misgivings, apprehensions, dreads, forebodings [ usually plural ] the holiday lived up to all our expectations (= was as good as we expected) My parents had high expectations for me (= expected me to be successful).
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