"anticipated the needs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to predict or foresee what someone may need and prepare for it. Example: The event coordinator anticipated the needs of the guests by providing a variety of food options and planning for potential dietary restrictions.
"We anticipated the needs of our youth in time to be ahead of this," he said.
Since they were children, my cousins have held wakes, chanted sutras over dead bodies, and anticipated the needs of those in mourning.
EVA anticipated the needs for a proper introduction in sub-Saharan Africa, one of the most difficult areas of the world for the delivery of immunization programs.
It provides an efficiency that the early Modernists never anticipated: the need to schedule relaxation time.
Many mining companies, he said, have anticipated the need to shed some peripheral mineral rights, and have found that they can do it without harming their own operations.
A century earlier, the federal government had sagely anticipated the need for consistency — for an anthem we can all easily holler along to at home.
At the National Press Club on Wednesday, Admiral Mullen said he anticipated the need for more money for the wars in the coming year beyond the $130 billion authorized for the 2010 fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1, 2009, until Sept. 30, 2010.
Campbell added that the museum anticipated the need to reduce the rest of its workforce by 10% by July, which could mean a reduction of as many as 250 additional full- and part-time jobs.
As Klain told The Huffington Post's "Candidate Confessional" podcast, no one anticipated the need for a recount.
They anticipated the need for education and training of a wide range of users (preparation).
How do programmers anticipate the needs of the market?
