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The phrase "ask for a future" is not correct and may be confusing in written English.
It could be used in contexts where someone is inquiring about future possibilities or outcomes, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "During the meeting, I decided to ask for a future where our project could thrive and succeed."
Alternatives: "inquire about future possibilities" or "request a vision for the future".
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I can't remember for the life of me what was in it (I might ask for a future column), but I remember the chutzpah with which he paraded a tray of them into the room, before asking nonchalantly: "Would anyone like a timmy noggy?" I also remember the gasps of admiration and the musical oooooohs this provoked.
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"They asked for a future.
Each year hundreds of thousands of Iranians, and also Shi'ites from neighboring countries, come to the shrine to pray and ask for a brighter future.
The letter was sent to May as well as the Brexit secretary, David Davis, the international trade secretary, Liam Fox, and the chief whip, Julian Smith, amid efforts to agree within cabinet what the UK will ask for in a future trading relationship.
Guests must stay at a participating SpringHill Suites and ask for a discount coupon for a future stay.
Maybe it's too much to ask for a code-once deploy-everywhere future.
The governors have written to Gove to ask for a meeting to discuss the future of the school, which is in Haringey, one of London's most deprived boroughs.
"You couldn't ask for a finer guide to the future -- or the past -- than Doug Molitor.
Read's Doug's comic novel, Memoirs of a Time Traveler, Now available on Kindle....or in paperback.. "You couldn't ask for a finer guide to the future - or the past - than Doug Molitor.
You could hardly ask for a more ringing endorsement of the future of HTML5 and a Web based on open, common standards than Adobe and Microsoft's near-simultaneous leaks announcing the impending disconinuation of their respective rich media browser plug-ins, Flash and Silverlight.
For instance, if you connect with a journalist or some successful individual one day and then ask for a favor two months in the future, you'll be out of luck.
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