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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about to collide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two or more objects are on a path that will lead them to come together or crash.
Example: "The two cars were speeding towards each other, about to collide at the intersection."
Alternatives: "on the verge of colliding" or "nearly crashing."
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England's fast start has fizzled out - their worm is about to collide with Australia's.
I gave O'Carroll a hypothetical: Assuming a fist was about to collide with his face, what would he be most worried about?
I had this strange dream that a large planet was about to collide with Venus.
The mini-series begins with an Armageddon-style introduction: a comet about to collide with earth.
The cameraman was about to collide with a telephone wire, prompting Mr. Crewdson to yell and wave his arms frantically.
And then there is the ship with which it seems about to collide - all at sea or on terra firma?
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Birnbaum is on to something when he talks about getting employees to "collide," because our data suggest that creating collisions chance encounters and unplanned interactions between knowledge workers, both inside and outside the organization improves performance.
Also then he wouldn't have had time for the bit about the moon waves or the bit about how we're going to collide with Andromeda.
Lovers run about the stage aimlessly only to collide into each other's arms.
At almost the same time that back-arc spreading ceased (about 15 Ma), the IBA started to collide against the Honshu arc due to the northwestward movement of the PHS plate and back-arc opening of the Sea of Japan (Takahashi and Saito 1997).
But their lives are just about to violently collide, with ultimately fatal consequences.
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