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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was imminent" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something is about to happen or is likely to happen soon. It adds a sense of urgency or impendingness to the sentence. Example: The storm was imminent, so they decided to cancel the picnic and head indoors.
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was imminent
adjective
About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
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Civil war was imminent.
No rain was imminent.
Surely outrage was imminent.
A communal (electoral) award was imminent.
Both believed a workers' revolution was imminent.
They had concluded a takeover was imminent.
Tammy Moss's foreclosure date was imminent.
Wenger, though, insisted nothing was imminent.
But I never imagined action was imminent.
His arrival, they said, was imminent.
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Labour mobility is imminent.
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