Anticipated and Inevitable

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Anticipated adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.

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Inevitable and anticipated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Inevitable" instead an adjective "Anticipated".

Inevitable adjective - Impossible to avoid or evade.

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Anticipated and inevitable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anticipated" instead an adjective "Inevitable".

Nearby Words: inevitability, inevitably

However, The Death Saw malfunctions and begins descending faster than the magician anticipated, causing him to panic visibly until The Death Saw reaches him and the inevitable happens.

Source: Fatal Method Acting
The phenomenon was anticipated in Larry Niven's 1972 short story, "Flash Crowd", in which the spontaneous formation of huge mobs at the site of interesting events was the inevitable consequence of cheap, readily-accessible teleportation.

Source: Flashmob
Comic fans who realized that "Merlyn" is the name of Green Arrow's Evil Counterpart from the comics anticipated an inevitable Start of Darkness moment for Tommy, only for the show's version of Merlyn to turn out to be his dad, Malcolm Merlyn.

Source: Red Herring

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