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were impending
adjective
Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
Exact(4)
It has been more than a year since McQuaid first said that those sanctions were impending.
Calixtus, to avert the wrath of God, ordered supplications that if evils were impending for the human race He would turn all upon the Turks, the enemies of the Christian name.
British officials said Thursday that they had had no warning that attacks were impending, and that they were going over their data to look for missed signals.
The main indications for tracheostomy were impending upper airway obstruction, respiratory distress and difficulty in intubation.
Similar(56)
Her trial is impending.
Sweat, if not blood, was impending.
The holidays, and the enforced togetherness they bring, are impending.
Last week, Bowden denied that a two-way trade was impending.
Magritte is asking us not what is in the sky, but what unseen thing is impending.
But then, the decision has been impending for weeks, if not months.
Society has changed its forms right in these pages, humanity its condition, & from a quick look around this morning we would guess that new destinies are impending.
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