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afoot

adjective as in traveling by foot

adjective as in in progress

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Trier trusts his audience to understand that something deeper and more thorny is afoot here, without laying out information plainly.

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Something bigger was afoot: that by-election last month was as much about who was going to lose as it was about who was going to win.

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But Miss Mortimer’s letter seemed to imply that there was actual trouble afoot.

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The game afoot isn’t lost on the State Department.

Lately, gold has been falling alongside U.S. stocks, which suggests a more dire situation for markets could be afoot — especially if it means there is no safe haven for investors to turn to.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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