coming down the pike

Example Sentences

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Senators, after all, are the points of contact for governors who want to complain about federal funding cuts coming down the pike that might screw up their budgets.

From Slate • May 20, 2025

Now, in conjunction with accelerating climate change, El Niño means a wide array of exacerbated hazards may be coming down the pike.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2023

“Any contraction that is happening was coming down the pike regardless, in my opinion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2023

On a recent Zoom call, Voices of Alzheimer’s board members — most of whom have MCI or moderate Alzheimer’s — angrily discussed Medicare’s refusal to cover Leqembi and similar drugs coming down the pike.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023

Even though the next morning he would leave on a dangerous mission, even though he knew something terrible was coming down the pike, those words of Mr. Benedict’s had made all good things seem possible.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart