afoot

Example Sentences

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Also, while Massachusetts gets the most National Institutes of Health funding of any state on a per capita basis, changes are afoot.

From The Wall Street Journal

The huge revelation was Will discovering he has supernatural powers... plus something unusual was afoot in a cave with Max, Holly and Vecna, in his earlier, creepy incarnation of Henry Creel.

From BBC

But a paradigm shift is afoot in Europe’s largest nation, and Washington should take note.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon

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.

From BBC