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Discover Ludwig"had expected as much" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means that the speaker had predicted or anticipated the outcome or situation that has just been mentioned. Example: I had been dreading going to the doctor for weeks, but when he delivered the bad news that I needed surgery, I had expected as much.
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"He told me he had expected as much," Michael Seitz, Peter's son, said in a recent telephone interview.
He said he had expected as much, telling his team before the series that to beat Boston, they must "embrace the difficult".
Ms. Morton said that she had expected as much and that she disliked how critics had built up Mr. Letts as a kindred spirit to Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee, especially blasting those who would suggest that he is a poor man's Albee, more flash than substance.
Hawking had expected as much, because he only sent out invitations after his party had concluded.
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I should have expected as much.
Really, we should have expected as much.
I might have expected as much.
I suppose I should've expected as much.
They did not.The president and his hawkish government should have expected as much.
In response to Friday's announcement, one microblogger, whose entry was deleted hours after posting and who might have expected as much, decided not to hold back.
Yes, a long-term, mutual-respect relationship was somehow forged out of that conversation, though neither man would have expected as much at the time.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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