Anticipated
Anticipated adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.
Likely is a synonym for anticipated in expected topic. In some cases you can use "Likely" instead an adjective "Anticipated".
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In some games the Border Patrol monster can actually be killed, though it's likely to respawn if the game designers anticipated your violent yearning to be free.
Source: Border Patrol -
Unfortunately, those changes were much more far-reaching than either side anticipated, and would've prevented the Holocaust, though likely still making a worse future.
Source: Set Right What Once Went Wrong -
Batman Gambit: Banning's provocation of Kang was likely an attempt to get him to leave the bunker, and he seems to have anticipated they would bring a hostage out to execute.
Source: Film / Olympus Has Fallen
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