afoot
Example Sentences
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Though she described the settlement as a done deal, she obliquely suggested changes might still be afoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
A similar spirit of reconciliation seems to be afoot in Wisconsin.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
But there is more afoot than a medical breakthrough, as Julia discovers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In Georgia Bernstein’s alluringly listless “Night Nurse,” something is afoot at a luxury retirement community.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Now when I saw him there I wept for pity and called out to him: ‘How is this, Elpenor, how could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I in the black lugger?’
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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