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To be ready for; to wait for.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Faith is like the little night-light that burns in a sickroom; as long as it is there, the obscurity is not complete; we turn towards it and await the daylight.
  • State of Sept. 2, 2005: Distant kin await close encounter
  • What we await is another deregulation bill that, like the 1997 deregulation solved the most specific and important constraint.
  • Old Man's War, the first in a series I eagerly await, is a fast-paced, fun, tip-of-the-hat to Heinlein that succeeds in every way it can.
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