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And I began to expect this reaction from my own people.
If you've dealt with equations before, then you probably expect that there will be a solution to the equation, a right answer.
Now, if these were random doodles or decorations, we would expect to see a lot more variation, but instead what we find are the same signs repeating across both space and time.
D2: Well, we know all behaviors are rooted in the brain, so I'd expect that something's gone terribly wrong probably in there.
If you expect A, but get B, then you have irony.
In fact, you probably expect someone who is single-handedly carrying a huge cake to trip.
One should not expect them to be connected, high-tech, or savvy enough to text or to be blogging, which must seem like some sort of newfangled thing that "back in my day," they never had.
If light were made of tiny, solid balls, then you would expect that some of the particles from Beam A would crash into some of the particles from Beam B. If that happened, the two particles involved in the collision would bounce off in random directions.
Situational irony is when you expect one thing, but get the opposite.
Like most everyone at the site, I was a math major, As you may expect, we're known for the analytic approach we take to love.
They learned to expect food at the sound of a bell.
Now, this is the part of the talk where you may expect me to launch into my plea for us to all save the coral reefs.
If they don't understand what a coral is or where it comes from, or how funny or interesting or beautiful it is, why would we expect them to care about saving them?
Early this century, scientists studying the outer reaches of the universe confirmed that not only is everything moving apart from everything else, as you would expect in a universe that began in hot, dense big bang, but that the universe's expansion also seems to be accelerating.
We didn't even expect to find things this beautiful.
Armed with the knowledge the guy from the football game was a jerk the first time you met him, you might expect more of the same down the road.
Was the behavior that caused you to update your impression something you'd expect anyone to do, or was it something totally out of the ordinary?
For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds since there wouldn't be any other smaller objects near the horizon.
On the other hand, if it's just our brain's autocorrecting the size of objects near the horizon, then we'd expect the moon illusion to be visible inside a planetarium, where the whole sky, including the horizon, is displayed on a spherical dome overhead.
Instead of pulling the universe together, as we would expect gravity to do, the universe appears to be expanding apart at an ever-increasing rate.
The Real Number Infinite Hotel has negative number rooms in the basement, fractional rooms, so the guy in room 1/2 always suspects he has less room than the guy in room 1. Square root rooms, like room radical 2, and room pi, where the guests expect free dessert.
The least you could expect is good TV, right?
So it follows: We should not expect to see a boiling river.
And everytime this happens, the next person in line will switch the parity they expect to see.
Little did we expect that that would lead us to fish farming.
It's not a weakness or a personality trait, and they shouldn't expect themselves to just get over it anymore than they could will themselves to get over a broken arm.
If it's more being trapped on the way out, then you would expect it to be warmer here and cooler here.
But in cases where we have reason to expect some natural variance, we should also expect varied distribution.
If you toss a coin one hundred times, you would expect to get heads somewhere around 50% of the time.
Unanimous agreement is still theoretically ideal, especially in cases when you'd expect very low odds of variability and uncertainty, but in practice, achieving it in situations where perfect agreement is highly unlikely should tell us that there's probably some hidden factor affecting the system.
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