Anticipated
Anticipated adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.
Hoped and anticipated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hoped" instead a verb "Anticipated".
Hoped
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He hoped to do this to the Big Bad but the heroes anticipated that it and prevented it.
Source: Body Surf -
It was driven both by the fact that the long hoped for radical social changes anticipated by the philosophers, would, *gasp* become real in the lifetimes of nobles and Kings, and people of different stripes who weren't comfortable with their way of living being radically changed.
Source: Useful Notes / The Enlightenment
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