Anticipated
Anticipated adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.
Next and anticipated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Next" instead an adjective "Anticipated".
Next
Next adjective - Being the one that comes immediately after another.
Anticipated and next are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anticipated" instead an adjective "Next".
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The dev team anticipated this trope and added a scripted kill-the-player-instantly sequence in the very next hallway, just in case.
Source: Video Game / Demon's Souls -
Then, in the next panel, he almost seems to realize that he's a character in a comic book - but in the panel after that, he becomes the butt of the very same joke he had anticipated.
Source: This Is Reality -
He did it again the next year, releasing the highly-anticipated sequel, Kuudere Simulator 2, adding a brand new mode: "Himedere".
Source: Video Game / Yandere Simulator
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Next and Anticipated. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/anticipated/next
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