What is "anticipator"

Usage examples of "anticipator".

While no anticipator of miracles and fully cognizant of the special problems establishing for­mal alliance with the locals entailed, he still felt that the pace of progress was too slow.

This was a routine conference, one of many similar ones Andy held with section chiefs around the country, although in recent months the anticipatory demographics of the computer models had given his visits to Texas an extra edge.

While no anticipator of miracles and fully cognizant of the special problems establishing formal alliance with the locals entailed, he still felt that the pace of progress was too slow.

This was the quixotic beginning of Starfleet’s reach out into deep space, the Federation’s first great manifestation of farsight, and this ship its first deep-space anticipator.

Dowd, ever the anticipator, had already mixed him a whisky and soda, but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue.

But Taylor had an anticipatory gleam in his eye, and she couldn't bear to disappoint him.

When before this, temerarious anticipators have written of the mighty buildings that might someday be, the illustrator has blended with the poor ineffectual splutter of the author's words, his powerful suggestion that it amounted simply to something bulbous, florid and fluent in the vein of the onion, and L'Art Nouveau.

They are gone already, it seems: shrewd anticipators, bound on their journey—where?