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The phrase "hardly anticipated" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that was unexpected or surprising. Here are a few examples: 1. The storm came quickly and with hardly anticipated force, causing widespread damage. 2. The new movie was hardly anticipated by critics, but it ended up being a blockbuster hit. 3. The politician's resignation was met with hardly anticipated reactions from the public and the media. 4. Despite the challenges, the team persevered and achieved a level of success that was hardly anticipated at the beginning of the season. 5. The latest technology release was hardly anticipated by consumers, but it ended up revolutionizing the industry.
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Shortly after he retired, Hill reflected on an N.F.L. career he had hardly anticipated.
And, it turned out, so did my husband, Richard, and I, in ways we had hardly anticipated.
We hardly anticipated slapstick to result from our visit to "Tension City," the PBS anchor Jim Lehrer's term for the experience of moderating presidential debates.
I didn't expect your piece to be balanced but hardly anticipated a total whitewash of a very controversial jurist, at least in regions not bounded by the East Coast of the USA.
In a twist that the British version hardly anticipated -- and clearly did not prefer -- the prize went to Judith Keppel, who happens to be a distant relative of Camilla Parker-Bowles, the friend of Prince Charles.
While this phenomenon seems typical, it is hardly anticipated because the system does not exhibit any of the crucial properties employed in available proofs of existence of traveling waves in lattice dynamical systems.
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When Jamie Siminoff invented what is now the Ring doorbell in 2012, he could hardly anticipate that, six years later, consumer spending on "smart" doorbell cameras will top $530 million, according to Strategy Analytics, which forecasts that more than 3.4 million video doorbells will be sold this year, with the United States accounting for the majority of sales.
Indeed, it will change our lives in ways we can hardly anticipate.
But while the Puritans may have taken a uniquely individualistic approach for their time to man's relationship with God, their frugal and communitarian ways hardly anticipate modern consumer culture or much else we associate with present-day American Capitalism.
There were also pressures that could hardly be anticipated.
Though Kaplan could hardly have anticipated it, the man and the moment met in another way.
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