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"have anticipated it" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to have predicted, expected, or foreseen something beforehand. Example: She has anticipated the challenges of running her own business, so she is well-prepared to handle them.
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Who would have anticipated it attracting half a million visitors to the Alexander McQueen exhibition?
"At the very least they should have anticipated it by having a substitute C.E.O.
He clearly hadn't been expecting that line of attack, though he might well have anticipated it.
(Though anyone who has spent time in Russia or in the company of Russians, or who has seen Woody Allen's "Love and Death," might have anticipated it).
Though you'd never have anticipated it, Vidal Sassoon emerges as an genuinely likable figure of some substance in this admittedly hagiographic documentary.
Few can have anticipated it when, 13 minutes from the end and with United having come from behind to make it 1-1, Swansea's Jordi Gomez was sent off.
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When the anticipated 'scary thing' happens, we congratulate ourselves for having anticipated it, the tension momentarily broken before the repercussions escalate it again.
"We should've anticipated it.
Not that they had anticipated it.
At the start of the guarantee, Mr. Rosenbluth had anticipated it might cost about $600,000.
I had no idea what boogie-woogie was, but I was excited by the idea that Beethoven had anticipated it.
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