Hoping and Promising

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Promising and hoping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Promising" instead an adjective "Hoping".

Nearby Words: hope, hoped

Promising adjective - Having qualities which inspire hope.

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Hoping and promising are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hoping" instead an adjective "Promising".

Nearby Words: promise, promised, promisingly, promisor

They had recorded two versions, in a different key and tempo, but while promising neither was quite the sound they were hoping for.

Source: Serendipity Writes the Plot
Subverted when later Charlie is regretfully hoping Wallace is okay and promising that he will try harder to be calm if Wallace came back.

Source: Webcomic / Monsterkind
Fire Emblem Awakening: The last line of an S Support between Say'ri and the Male Avatar has Say'ri, after promising to take him back home with her to see Chon'sin and all of the fantastic sights she described to him, hoping that they could perhaps be joined together as one under the cherry trees.

Source: Accidental Innuendo / Video Games

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